Quotes About Lycurgus

#1. When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

Thomas Day

#2. Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratical rather than oligarchical, "Go you," replied the legislator, "and try a democracy in your own house.

Plutarch

#3. Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

Marquis De Sade

#4. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.

CM Punk

#5. Bliss Thrives
From within,
Deep inside
Where Love dives.

James Josue

#6. A winning effort begins with preparation.

Joe Gibbs

#7. My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Herbert Hoover

#8. I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world. Remember!

Charles I Of England

#9. Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#10. But the Good Book said a lot of things. Like 'love thy neighbor' and ' do unto others as you would have them do unto you'. If nothing else, wasn't the message of the Good Book to live and let live? So how could the Crosses call themselves 'God's chosen' and still treat us the way they did?

Malorie Blackman

#11. Every episode [in a TV series] is a challenge, and what's challenging in most episodes is the monster. You're always a heartbeat from the monster looking ridiculous. You really have to work so hard to make them not look like ridiculous when they turn up on the set.

Steven Moffat

#12. When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. You are either a pawn or a player. I am no one's tool. I am no one's pawn. I am a player. In the world of kill or be killed I'm a murderess. I will ripe out your throat with my bare hands and lick the blood from my fingers.-Lilith

Ashley Jeffery

#14. It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

Hisham Matar

#15. That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.

Lycurgus Of Sparta

#16. Welcome to vampire-ville." He chuckled.

S.L. Ross

#17. The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

John Steinbeck

#18. A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.

Lycurgus Of Sparta

#19. It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.

L. S. Lowry

#20. Some Christians believe the harder that one thinks, the colder faith will grow. Augustine grew more brilliant as he grew more pious, more creative as he became more orthodox. His period of heresy was imitative, but his traditional Christianity took mental risks.

John Mark Reynolds