Theocritus Quotes

#1. Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'

Susan Stewart

#2. The exact meaning of Jeremiah is not certain: it may mean "the LORD exalts"; it may mean "the LORD hurls." What is certain is that "the LORD," the personal name of God, is in his name.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

Theocritus

#4. My ex-girlfriend Lisa once said that every woman wants the same thing in a relationship: to be adored.

Neil Strauss

#5. Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

Theocritus

#6. Any idea why there is a giant penis made out of snow in our front yard?"
Instead of an answer, I was rewarded with a face full of graham cracker cereal and milk." - from Of Cheerleaders and Gingers

K.C. Beaumont

#7. Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

Theocritus

#8. Sameron adion aso
I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Theocritus

#9. Trying will do anything in this world.

Theocritus

#10. She must be in eighth grade
maybe seventh. She's old enough to wear make-up, but she hasn't figured out yet how to wear it well.

David Levithan

#11. Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:
We are but mortals, and must sing of men.

Theocritus

#12. Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Alexander Alekhine

#13. Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

Theocritus

#14. While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.

Theocritus

#15. The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

Theocritus

#16. Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.

Theocritus

#17. IT will find you, if you are hell-bent on finding IT....Success or Failure?

Saurabh Singal

#18. Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

#19. Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

Theocritus

#20. Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

Theocritus

#21. Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

Theocritus

#22. Youth passes like a dream.

Theocritus

#23. Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

Theocritus

#24. All cats love a cushioned couch.

Theocritus

#25. Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

Theocritus

#26. Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Theocritus

#27. Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

Theocritus

#28. Give me the courage to work steadily for the best I can imagine amid the worst that I experience.

Kenneth G Phifer

#29. When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

Oprah Winfrey

#30. Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Theocritus

#31. Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Theocritus

#32. Man will ever stand in need of man.

Theocritus

#33. You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

#34. Cats will always lie soft.

Theocritus