Plutarch Quotes

Antiphanes said merrily that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter articulated next summer.

Plutarch

Quotes to Explore

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

Barbara Sukowa
- Read
- Forgotten
- Plato
There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.

Zoe Saldana
- Different
- Earth
- Feeling
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

Maajid Nawaz
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

Baha'u'llah
- Men
- Knowledge
- Physician
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- May
- Poetry
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.

Lake Bell
- Family
- Pretty
- Dad