Leuctra Quotes

#1. Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?

Plutarch

#2. DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

Ambrose Bierce

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Anonymous

#4. Ugh. You're being ... you."
"Was that in English?"
"This is all your fault."
"Nope. Definitely not English."
"You're being all hot and sexy, dammit," she said. She banged her head on his chest a few times. "And I can't seem to ... not notice said hotness and sexiness.

Jill Shalvis

#5. The Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. I just wanted to go home, to the language in which I was known, and loved.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#7. He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling
this is a further effect of our shared sorrow, this empathy, this mournful telepathy.

John Banville

#9. A photograph can communicate a couple things - and sometimes only one thing - very well. The more you try to say with your photograph, the greater the chance that you will say nothing at all.

David DuChemin

#10. Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

Zane Grey