Famous quotes by Authors

"Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Despair often breeds disease"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Best to live lightly, unthinkingly"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"In a just cause, the weak will beat the strong"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"When trouble ends, even troubles please"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"There is a point at which even justice does injury"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"A lie never lives to be old"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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