Herodotus Famous Quotes
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."
In soft regions are born soft men.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
"In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."
Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Haste in every business brings failures.
"The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long."
"Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed."
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
Herodotus Quotations
"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."
Benjamin Franklin
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped."
Calvin Coolidge
"Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years."
James Grover Thurber
"My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'"
Jim Fox
A fair exterior is a silent recommendation.
Publilius Syrus
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.
Thomas Jefferson
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
Joan Didion
I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrire than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
Alexander Meigs Haig
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm."
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess."
Karl Kraus