Menander famous quotes

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.
-- Menander

#Men #Experience #Alive

Art is man's refuge from adversity.
-- Menander

#Art #Adversity #Men

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
-- Menander

#Inspirational #Wise #Wisdom

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
-- Menander

#School #Experience #Curriculum

Silence is often advantageous.
-- Menander

#Inspirational #Silence #Silence Is

No just person ever became quickly rich.
-- Menander

#Wealth #Rich #Persons

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.
-- Menander

#Women #Sea #Land

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
-- Menander

#Inspirational #Success #Perseverance

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
-- Menander

#Heart #Giving #Praying

The good man makes others good.
-- Menander

#Men #Good Man #Goodness

How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
-- Menander

#Sweet #Oneself

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.
-- Menander

#Pain #Men #Comfort

To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.
-- Menander

#Men #Self #Helping

The character of a man is known from his conversations.
-- Menander

#Character #Men #Conversation

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
-- Menander

#War #Iron #Clothes

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
-- Menander

#Hands #Stones #Easy

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
-- Menander

#Evil #Excess #Goodness

In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."
-- Menander

#People #Know Thyself #Wells

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.
-- Menander

#Determination #Fighting #Weather

Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.
-- Menander

#Experience #Happened

There is but one genuine love potion - consideration.
-- Menander

#Wise #Wisdom #Love You

The workman still is greater than his work.
-- Menander

#Work #Workmen #Stills

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.
-- Menander

#Light #Sometimes

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
-- Menander

#Communication #Evil #Disposition

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
-- Menander

#Evil #Faces #Truth Is

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.
-- Menander

#Pieces #Moments #Assured

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.
-- Menander

#Courage #Choices #Bravery

Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
-- Menander

#Drinking #Sea #Land

A man that runs away may fight again.
-- Menander

#Running #War #Fighting

He who labors diligently need never despair.
-- Menander

#Perseverance #Labor Day #Despair

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
-- Menander

#Play #Fool #Should

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
-- Menander

#Hope #Midst #Persons

All men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
-- Menander

#Friends #Good Friend #Men

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.
-- Menander

#Inspirational #Mean #Development And Growth

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
-- Menander

#Life #Courage #Grief

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
-- Menander

#Wisdom #Hair #Shoulders

Whom the gods love dies young.
-- Menander

#Latin #God Love #Young

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
-- Menander

#Real #Character #Men

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
-- Menander

#Wisdom #Hair #White Hair

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
-- Menander

#Figs #Spades

Nothing is more useful than silence.
-- Menander

#Men #Silence #Silent

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
-- Menander

#Love #Life #Leadership

Conscience is a God to all mortals.
-- Menander

#Mortals #Conscience

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
-- Menander

#Life #Men #Preparation

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.
-- Menander

#Love #Marriage #Men

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.
-- Menander

#Chance #Kind #Chances Are

Why should he who is scared be careful?
-- Menander

#Worry #Anxiety #Scared

Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.
-- Menander

#Women #Sea #Earth

Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
-- Menander

#Healing #Health #Sleep