Famous Quotes

Quotes by Euripides

• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
• Cleverness is not wisdom.
• Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
• Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
• Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.
• Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
• God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
• Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
• He is not a lover who does not love forever.
• He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
• It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
• Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
• Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
• No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
• Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
• Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
• Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
• Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
• Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
• The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
• The best of seers is he who guesses well.
• The greatest pleasure of life is love.
• There is just one life for each of us: our own.
• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
• To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
• Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
• Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.