Quotes About Cadmus

#1. Are the legends true?" asked Cadmus. "Of course they are," replied Pan. "We live in an age of legends.

Sulari Gentill

#2. The people of Thebes were actually called by Pentheus, the grandson of Cadmus, "children of the serpent, people of Mars."[581]

David Flynn

#3. I didn't know what to tell her.I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sinesof our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle.But I had no answer for her, or for myself.

Daniel Keyes

#4. There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.' It was probably important to her.

Rick Riordan

#7. What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?" Cadmus asked.

"Keep your spirits up." Lycon sheathed the dagger he'd used to chisel the trunk.

Cadmus shook his head. "Idiot.

Sulari Gentill

#8. To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

Moliere

#9. There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way.

Rawi Hage

#10. Surrender to sensuality paralyzes the powers of the moral person.

Josef Pieper

#11. Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal.

Rob Schwimmer

#12. Yardy doing a good job out there - 1-14 off his five overs so far - but Bangla are letting this drift. The bowling is there to attack, but they're as passive as sleeping sloths at the mo.

Tom Fordyce

#13. In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.

Cadmus M. Wilcox

#14. I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

C. Sommerville