Macedon Quotes

#1. My boy, you must find a kingdom big enough for your ambitions. Macedon is too small for you.

Philip II Of Macedon

#2. Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Will Cuppy

#3. We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

Alexander The Great

#4. There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both.

William Shakespeare

#5. This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

Livy

#6. I carry the seeds of your hatred,' he shouted, hurling his words to the winds, 'and I know where
to plant them.'
Yes, he thought, Thebes is the right destination for the Lion of Macedon.

David Gemmell

#7. When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Sid Waddell

#8. In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Marcus Aurelius

#9. During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work.

Mary Renault

#10. Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

John Milton

#11. My son ask for thyself another Kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee

Philip II Of Macedon

#12. He was supposed to be reading, but all he could do was watch her and love her bare arms, her Alice band, her straight back, the sweet tilt of her chin as she tucked the instrument under it ...

Ian McEwan

#13. Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.

Al Aronowitz

#14. Education prepares to be one piece of a machine.

Sugata Mitra

#15. Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.

Philip II Of Macedon

#16. I'm so proud of myself. I thought, 'I've got to learn about American history.' I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn't know Benjamin Franklin was so cool.

Rene Russo

#17. All religions seem alike to me, one mass of absurdities and lies - I know that there is a God, but I know no more of him; and I believe that all those are liars who pretend to know more than I do.

Mary Martha Sherwood

#18. The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings
crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

Larry McMurtry

#19. Every time I sit down with him, I know why he is who he is, and that's really cool. It's a great feeling. It sucks because I'm so not an ass-kisser, but he's George Lucas.

Kevin Munroe

#20. The solutions to my problems can be found in the songs she sends. I just have to hit the right note.

Alice Quinn

#21. The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.

Emily Haines

#22. There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.

Philip II Of Macedon

#23. Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Juvenal

#24. They stumble at the Word of God for in their hearts they are unwilling to obey it - which makes stumbling a foregone conclusion.

J.B. Phillips

#25. People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.

Christa Miller

#26. The fountain of youth [for me], let's see ... I guess it's exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex - yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It's healthy, it's natural, it's what we are here to do!

Cameron Diaz