A Quote by Solon

Call no man happy until he is dead.

Solon

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Greek - Statesman
638 BC - 558 BC

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Neil Gaiman

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Solon

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

Solon

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Call no man happy till he is dead.

Aeschylus

Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

Tom Robbins

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

John Piper

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

Solon

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

Benjamin Franklin

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

John Dryden

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

Mark Twain

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Oliver Tambo

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Benjamin Franklin

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.

Van Wyck Brooks

Verily, a man without fear is either dead or happy to die.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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