Quotes About Croesus

#1. They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

C. G. Jung

#2. Why, oh why have I fallen for someone who is plain crazy - beautiful, sexy as fuck, richer than Croesus, and crazy with a capital K?

E.L. James

#3. Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

Francis Bacon

#4. She's only been here a year and she's already as rich as Croesus.

Alan Bradley

#5. The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Ludwig Von Mises

#6. The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#7. People who get comfortable in their spirit miss what they were created for. They were created to magnify the glory of the world.

Cory Booker

#8. Your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty and because it's noisy, but for you it's fun and you're doing experiments ... Just tell your parents that they're experiments and you want to become a scientist, and they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. 5Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes t that Jesus is the Son of God?

Anonymous

#10. My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe.

Aryn Kyle

#11. He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Dickens

#12. No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

Croesus

#13. Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Virginia Woolf

#14. My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.

Joe Gibbs

#15. We are all mediators, translators.

Jacques Derrida

#16. No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

Albert Einstein

#17. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. My cycle had begun. I was now a woman. I was ready to do God's work.

Michele Dominguez Greene

#18. You ought to try being cruel to some people.

Mike Judge

#19. You may not have realized what it meant, but somehow, you made the decision subconsciously ... that you wanted to keep me.

Shelly Crane

#20. An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Richard Mitchell

#21. There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

#22. The foundation of religion is not the affirmation that God is, but that God is concerned with man and the world; that, having created the world, he has not abandoned it, leaving it to its own devices; that he cares for his creation.

Eliezer Berkovits