Seven Sages Of Greece Quotes

#1. Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.

Adoniram Judson

#2. Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.

Bryant McGill

#3. What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. I get an odd, intimate, and amusing sensation from having him sit on my foot and warm it with the blood-heat of his body. A pervasive feeling of sympathy and good cheer fills me, as almost invariably when in his company and looking at things from his angle.

Thomas Mann

#5. What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#7. Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

William Gilmore Simms