Drachmae Quotes

#1. To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

Aristophanes

#2. I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

Aulus Gellius

#3. Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas. And the Sophist is not merely a teacher of rhetoric for a fee of one or fifty drachmae (Crat.), but an ideal of Plato's in which the falsehood of all mankind is reflected.

Plato

#4. I think if a physician wrote on a death certificate that old age was the cause of death, he'd be thrown out of the union. There is always some final event, some failure of an organ, some last attack of pneumonia, that finishes off a life. No one dies of old age.

George Wald

#5. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

David Bowie

#6. Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa.

Jack Kirby

#7. You are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

Sidney Sheldon

#8. Would've thought it was a closet door, but it couldn't have been, unless a half-naked chick had been hiding in there. If so, this was my kind of dorm.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too.

Drake

#10. Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.

Eleanor Brownn

#11. The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

Boy George

#12. She was of that certain age when the bloom of youth must give way to strength of character, but her face was handsome in its intelligent eyes and commanding smile, and her hair retained a youthful spring as it threatened to escape from its carefully pinned rolls.

Helen Simonson

#13. He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.

Jack London

#14. There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Rick Ross

#15. Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

Pope Benedict XVI

#16. I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

George Carlin

#17. With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

Tom Verlaine

#18. Sometimes," says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence.

Sally Brampton