Euripides Medea Quotes

#1. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.

Euripides

#2. The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

David Suzuki

#4. I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth.

John Shelby Spong

#5. no man,
is ever happy, no one.

Euripides

#6. The whole scene had a dreamlike quality, like a Chagall painting come to life.

Lev Grossman

#7. death is the only water to wash away this dirt

Euripides

#8. My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.

Euripides

#9. Everyone has a book in them we just need to find out how to get it out

Craig Whitman

#10. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

#11. The mind of a queen
Is a thing to fear. A queen is used
To giving commands, not obeying them;
And her rage once roused is hard to appease.

Euripides

#12. Live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. You're going through college, and you're going to be faced with a lot of things. You're going to face adversity, the main thing is don't quit. For many people it's easy to quit, but don't. That's what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all-stars from the also-rans.

Mr. T

#14. What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?

Euripides

#15. News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Christopher Lasch

#16. An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

Winston Churchill

#17. I try to think of anything that might help. But my mind isn't working. And all I can think is, we're going to die. My father's going to flipping win.

Sarah Mussi

#18. To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

Euripides

#19. All the information I have about myself is from forged documents.

Vladimir Nabokov

#20. No one who goes against her can win.

Euripides

#21. O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

Euripides

#22. There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

Peter Mayle