Sophocles Quotes

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

Sophocles

• Speech
• Sickness
• Ugly Person

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The migration wave can be stopped.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Wave
  • Stopped
  • Migration

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Long
  • You

• I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • House
  • Things

• As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Together
  • Peace
  • Fight

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Start

• I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Moment

• It's rewarding to be recognized by the fans and other players for my abilities and to be able to represent the Arizona Cardinals fans from around the world.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Fans
  • Arizona

• I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Like

• I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Pressure
  • Grateful

• I'm in good shape.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Shape

• Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Child
  • Old

• I'm not really the sex symbol type.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Sex
  • Really
  • Symbol

• I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Exploration

• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Universe
  • Laws

• See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Men
  • May

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• There is no fire like greed, No crime like hatred, No sorrow like separation, No sickness like hunger of heart, And no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Freedom
  • Joy
  • Crime

• Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

  

  Sophocles
  • Speech
  • Sickness
  • Ugly Person