Macedon's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Unhappy business men, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

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

Philip II Of Macedon

#4. Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

Fiona Shaw

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

Alexander The Great

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

Philip II Of Macedon

#7. 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

#8. I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

Michael Heizer

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

Livy

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.

Candice Huffine

#13. When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.

Emmet Fox

#14. I don't know about hiding away, but I really only like to present myself when I'm working on something - it's more my work I like to present to the world rather than myself.

Kate Bush

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Philip II Of Macedon

#18. Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.

Mark Buchanan

#19. The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Adam Sandler

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

Philip II Of Macedon

#21. He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

John Mason Brown

#22. One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.

Debra Levinson

#23. 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