Top 131 Quotes & Sayings by Herodotus - Page 3

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.