Top 434 Quotes & Sayings by Euripides - Page 7

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.

Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Leave no stone untamed.

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

Many a maiden, With white feet glancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

The ways of the gods are long, but in the end they are not without strength.

It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.

The life of men is painful.

When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.

Numbers are a fearful thing.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

If god is truly god, he is perfect, lacking nothing.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses.

Life is short, yet sweet.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

A change is always nice.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.

Love's all in all to women.

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven - of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.