“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.” MenDesireRichCallingLuckyCapableDeserveStrikesDisasterFortunateSatisfyingRidingBetter OffRefrainRich ManUnluckyLucky Man Author:Solon
“Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.” WeightGentlemanHonourOath Author:Solon
“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.” MindWellsHeartMayStillsFacesWishSecretWatchesCitizensTongueCheerfulSpearsGood Wishes Author:Solon
“That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.” CitiesWronged Author:Solon
“As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.” PeopleMenGivingHumansKindStillsLife IsGivenCommonSubjectsFitBlessingGood ThingsAdmireHuman LifeGreekModerationObservingDeitiesSplendidLikelihoodFelicityVicissitudes Author:Solon
“Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.” MenLawInterestPartyBreakAdvantageAgreementEvidentAthenians Author:Solon
“Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.” PeopleMenYearsMindMeanMatterStatesGrowsImaginationNumbersEmotionQualityBoysYouthAdventureSpringRedIdealsTwentiesLipsEaseKneesFiftyAppetiteState Of MindTemperCheeksVigorFreshnessTimidityRed LipsSupple Author:Samuel Ullman
“Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?” PeopleIfsWantEnoughLanguageStrongImaginationMarkPreparedRealisticTolerateVividStrong EnoughExclamationAnglo SaxonExclamation Marks Author:John Mortimer
“People will go to endless trouble to divorce one person and then marry someone who is exactly the same, except probably a bit poorer and a bit nastier. I don't think anybody learns anything.” PeopleThinkingPersonsBitsTroubleDivorceEndless Author:John Mortimer
“The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.” MenWayCertain Author:Muriel Spark
