HANDBOOK OF QUOTATIONS HOMER (ABOUT 907 B.C.) LIKE leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race, the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those have passed away. Pope's Iliad Who dares think one thing, and another tell, Pope's Iliad True friendship's laws are by this rule expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. HESIOD (ABOUT 850 B.C.) Pope's Odyssey Fools! not to know how better, for the soul, An honest half, than an ill-gotten whole: How richer, he who dines on herbs, with health Of heart, than knaves with all their wines and wealth. SOLON (ABOUT 638 B.C.) He who has learned to obey, will know how to command. In every thing that you do, consider the end. PYTHAGORAS (580-500 B.C.) Be silent, or say something better than silence. Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest. CONFUCIUS (551-479 B.C.) Eat at your own table as you would eat at the table of the king. Learning without thought is labor lost. ESCHYLUS (525-456 B.C.) God ever works with those who work with will. SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.C.) Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself. SOCRATES (470-399 B.C.) The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. MENANDER (342-291 B.C.) It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. EUCLID (ABOUT 300 B.C.) There is no royal path which leads to geometry. PLAUTUS (254-184 B.C.) One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. CICERO (106-43 B.C.) Usefulness and baseness cannot exist in the same thing. The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body. HORACE (65-8 B.C.) Anger is a short madness. A good resolve will make any port. A picture is a poem without words. The mind alone is in fault which can never fly from itself. True, conscious honor is to feel no sin; He's armed without that's innocent within, Be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass. In adversity those talents are called forth, which are concealed by prosperity. With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate PUBLIUS (ABOUT 45 B.C.) (SYRUS) He who overlooks one crime, invites the commission of another. A small debt makes a debtor; a heavy one, an enemy. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. OVID (43 B.C.-18 A.D.) Learning the liberal arts and sciences thoroughly, softens men's manners, and prevents their being a pack of brutes. |