Euripides Quotes

Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.

Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

When cheated, wife or husband feels the same.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

The childless escape much misery.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

Keep alive the light of justice, And much that men say in blame will pass you by.

A woman should always stand by a woman.

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

The wise with hope support the pains of life.

Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

Dead men have no victory.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

An ally need not own the land he helps.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

Woman is woman's natural ally.

God helps him who strives hard.

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls.

If some appalling disaster befalls, there's Always a way for the rich.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

Delusive hope still points to distant good.

The God knows when to smile.

None wise dares hopeless venture.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!