Quotes About Xerxes

#1. All over Greece, strangers of a certain age will greet one another with the question, "And where were you and what did you do when Xerxes came to Marathon?" Then they exchange lies.

Gore Vidal

#2. Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Let's see: I'm into a whole bunch of different people - Alexander Wang ... that's my dude.

Theophilus London

#4. Take pictures of what you fear.

Diane Arbus

#5. A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Mark Twain

#6. Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.

Francesca Martinez

#7. When I review Xerxes' achievements, I praise him, not for having yoked the Hellespont, but for having crossed it. But I can see that Nero will neither sail through the Isthmus nor complete his digging.

Apollonius Of Tyana

#8. It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

James Russell Lowell

#9. Go now, run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces free men here, not slaves

Frank Miller

#10. Only by great risks can great results be achieved.

Xerxes I

#11. The sight of a certain depressed-to-the-max head of seaweed has made me quite ill.

Jun Mochizuki

#12. And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

Stephen Kinzer

#14. Xerxes: It isn't wise to stand against me, Leonidas. Imagine what horrible fate awaits my enemies when I would gladly kill any of my own men for victory.
King Leonidas: And I would die for any one of mine.

Frank Miller

#15. Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

Jun Mochizuki

#16. If you can sustain the insight that people are doing the best they can
if you can maintain some faith that this is an insight
you're solid. If not, maybe you should pack it in.

Garret Keizer

#17. Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it, for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together, and he might not get home for years.

Peter Singer