Hesiod Famous Quotes
"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning."
"Even though it's hard, it's easy."
"Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy."
"If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great."
"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."
"He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner."
"The dawn speeds a man on his journey, and speeds him too in his work."
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy."
"Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor."
"He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils."
Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
"A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing."
Hesiod Quotations
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."
Roger Baldwin
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
"Look back, and smile on perils past."
Sir Walter Scott
I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Toni Morrison
"The way you let your hand rest in mine, my bewitching Sweetheart, fills me with happiness. It is the perfection of confiding love. Everything you do, the little unconscious things in particular, charms me and increases my sense of nearness to you, identification with you, till my heart is full to overflowing."
Woodrow Wilson
"Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made."
Dr Jeffrey Borenstein
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
John Mason Brown
To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.
Clive