Hippias Quotes

#1. You wouldn't know him if I told you the name. HIPPIAS: But I know right now he's an ignoramus.

Plato

#2. So do you think it's true what they say? About girls liking bastards?'
'He's not a bastard. He's an idiot.'
'Do girls like idiots then?

David Nicholls

#3. I was vanquished by a deer!'
A giant magical flying deer with fangs,' Seth said, parroting a description Gavin had shared earlier.
That sounds a little better,' Warren conceded. 'Seth is in charge of my tombstone.

Brandon Mull

#4. To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Marcus Aurelius

#5. That is life ... to begin again when everything is lost!

A.J. Cronin

#6. Social media, for all of its limitations, is rarely irrelevant. The stream of updates on your Facebook page, for instance, is algorithmically engineered to be darn-near irresistible.

Ryan Holmes

#7. One day there will be no more stars. There will be no more darkness. You see, light isn't the absence of darkness. Darkness is the absence of light.

J.W. Lord

#8. I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q ...

Aimee Bender

#9. The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

Frederick C. Beiser

#10. Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

Brian Christian

#11. On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know.
On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

Philippe Petit

#12. You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning - for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Robert Breault