Sparta famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

  • Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

  • Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when the gifts begin to tremble because lovelessness walks through the world, because it snarls at you, barks at you from the snow, and the silver ribbons rip and the tinsel rustles silvery, and the silver and gold, and a golden word come to you on which you choke because you have been sold and betrayed, and because it does not suffice that for you one is redeemed who once died.

  • One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

  • Let's reach the students who will abide by a "yes means yes" standard in sexual behavior and reeducate them to use it. And as more and more of them use it, others will adopt it too. We're on our way to a new social norm and that's a beautiful thing.

  • No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

  • I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.

  • I close my eyes And sink within myself Relive the gift of precious memories In need of a fix called innocence When did it begin?The change to come was undetectable The open wounds expose the importance of Our innocence A high that can never be bought or sold

  • Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

  • How can I know what I think till I see what I say?