Top 34 Theophrastus Quotes
#1. It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.
Diogenes
#2. Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
Theophrastus
#3. Virat Kohli is the PRINCE of Indian cricket.
Ian Chappell
#4. True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
Theophrastus
#5. We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Theophrastus
#6. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
#7. An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
Theophrastus
#8. We have been released from the spirit of fear by the Holy Spirit, who has placed us in the body of Christ.
David Jeremiah
#9. Just a thought for all you God-fearin', gun-lovin', Bible-thumpin' 2nd Amendment patriots. If it turns out Heaven's a gun-free zone, what's plan B???
Quentin R. Bufogle
#10. Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake
And behold there the constellations
Of both hemispheres at once?
-Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes
Ian C. Esslemont
#12. To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
#13. Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
Theophrastus
#14. Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
Theophrastus
#15. There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.
Philippus Theophrastus
#16. I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.
Bobby Short
#17. I was so sensitive and touchy in a way that my character would never be. I was so protective and defensive of young girls, and sex in general.
Kristen Stewart
#18. Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding.
Theophrastus
#19. I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them.
Patrick Henry
#20. If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.
Sid Caesar
#21. Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.
Theophrastus
#23. Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.
Theophrastus
#24. Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.
Theophrastus
#25. I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
Theophrastus
#26. If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.
Theophrastus
#27. The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
Theophrastus
#28. To understand the truth on any biblical teaching, we must consider all the passages on a subject.
United Church Of God
#30. The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
Theophrastus
#31. I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.
Paul Auster
#32. One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
Theophrastus
#33. I receive the blessing of past dates, the lessons and the joy, and let the rest go now for all time.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#34. Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for? ... No. Their creed is barren of conscience, immune to the promptings of good and evil.
Margaret Thatcher
