Simonides Quotes

#1. But then, I said, speaking the truth and paying your debts is not a correct definition of justice. Quite correct, Socrates, if Simonides is to be believed, said Polemarchus interposing. I

Plato

#2. Simonides, then, after the manner of poets, would seem to have spoken darkly of the nature of justice; for he really meant to say that justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt. That

Plato

#3. Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Plutarch

#4. Simonides of Amorgos says, "Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters." For Hipponax: "There are but two days in life when your wife brings you joy: her wedding day and her funeral.

Simone De Beauvoir

#5. Go tell the Spartans, you who passeth by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie Poems by Simonides (556 BC - 468 BC)

Ian S Varty

#6. There is also a fable told by Phaedrus, about how Simonides was once a victim of shipwreck. As the other passengers scurried about the sinking ship trying to save their possessions, the poet stood idle. When questioned, he declared, mecum mea sunt cuncta: everything that is me is with me.

Anne Carson

#7. Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.

Joseph Addison

#8. Any man is good when life treats him well, and bad when it treats him badly.

Simonides

#9. The gods do not fight against necessity.

Simonides Of Ceos

#10. It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.

Simonides Of Ceos

#11. We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

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#12. Can build plane ... Delivery about three months.

Donald Hall

#13. It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Ansel Elgort

#14. I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

David Small

#15. The main thing I look for in a recipe is taste, which is different from caterers and restaurants, who first ask 'How does it look?'

Diane Mott Davidson

#16. I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

Phil Keoghan

#17. Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

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#18. A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

Simonides Of Ceos

#19. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good wife, or anything that is worse than a bad one.

Simonides Of Ceos

#20. I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're ... sometimes ... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Elizabeth Edwards

#21. Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.

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#22. Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

Simonides Of Ceos

#23. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Simonides

#24. There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health.

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#25. We are all debts owed to death.

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#26. If to die honorably is the greatest Part of virtue, for us fate's done her best. Because we fought to crown Greece with freedom We lie here enjoying timeless fame.

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#27. Dancing is silent poetry.

Simonides

#28. I studied music formally. I was probably less formal about my study of acting than anything.

David Carradine

#29. There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.

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#30. Not even the gods fight against necessity.

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#31. If the guy in front of you at the polls has arm swords, you might want to considering filling out an absentee ballot.

Jon Stewart

#32. I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

Joanna Trollope

#33. The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don't live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.

Edward Albee

#34. Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

Viktor E. Frankl

#35. Say "no" only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, "All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Gretchen Rubin

#36. There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Herman Melville

#37. The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

Francois Mauriac

#38. The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.

Simonides

#39. Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright light. There she is, he thought breathlessly, there she is. With a shout of joy and deliverance he plunged forward to meet the light.

Hella S. Haasse