Socrates Quotes

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.

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• My hunger is always there.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Always
  • Hunger

• By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Past
  • Best

• If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Good
  • Best

• For me, my writing benefits from my experience.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Me

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Ability
  • Ego
  • Confident

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Money
  • May
  • Democracy

• I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Movies

• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Good
  • Thing

• Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Giving
  • Doubt
  • Suspicious

• In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Many
  • Did
  • Dictators

• I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • Nice
  • Clothes

• I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Women
  • Done
  • Think

• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spring
  • Shows
  • Glory

• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Quality
  • Woman
  • Gab

• There be none of Beauty's daughtersWith a magic like thee;And like music on the watersIs thy sweet voice to me.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Sweet

• When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Time
  • She
  • Mother

• Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Woman