Simonides Famous Quotes
"A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one."
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech."
Not even the gods fight against necessity.
Simonides Quotations
"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year."
Charles Dickens
Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet.
Karl Kleinpaste
"Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life."
Thomas Jefferson
I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.
Craig Volk
"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack."
Lois McMaster Bujold
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johann Kepler
"A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Maxwell Planck