Archilochus Quotes

#1. We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus

Timothy Ferriss

#2. Everything is hell now and I deserve it, but I can handle pain.

Katja Millay

#3. On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#4. Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

Akiva Goldsman

#5. Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

David Byrne

#6. No one wants to set foot outside unless it's to go somewhere

Nina Stibbe

#7. I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

Archilochus

#8. There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Joyce Grenfell

#9. Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

Archilochus

#10. How many times did a wicked man come to power and suddenly find his kingdom too small?

Andrew Peterson

#11. The Sage sees the world
as an expansion of his own self
So what need has he to accumulate things?

Lao-Tzu

#12. That's how it was in the beginning. We didn't just lose a town, we lost our whole lives.

Svetlana Alexievich

#13. Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

Archilochus

#14. Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

Archilochus

#15. Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

Archilochus

#16. Abortion is one of the most shocking, yet entirely logical, extensions of this obsession with comfort, convenience and luxury. Less dramatic, but just as deadly to millions of lost souls in our world, is our unwillingness to make even small sacrifices to reach them with the Gospel.

K.P. Yohannan

#17. Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

Archilochus

#18. And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Archilochus

#19. These golden matters Of Gyges and his treasuries Are no concern of mine. Jealousy has no power over me, Nor do I envy a god his work, And I do not burn to rule. Such things have no Fascination for my eyes.

Archilochus

#20. Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.

Archilochus

#21. I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

Dave Attell

#22. Folk dress in all manner of finery and wonderful hats to go and watch the races, but only if it's horses doing the barreling that day. This, at least, is understandable, for horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse's tragedy that they can never properly wear one.

Catherynne M Valente

#23. I took the last bite of the pie, then licked the plate. Yep. You're looking at the future first baby mama to Blaine Crabtree.

Magan Vernon