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MARTY RUBIN The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a c...
JOSE BERGAMIN A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Go where he will, the wise man is at home.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.
GUY DAVENPORT Every time hes supposed to be here, hes showed up,
BRENDA JONES The wise man stops being wise when he gets angry.
VIKRANT PARSAI The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
DAMIEN HIRST The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
FRANK GARBUTT The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
FRANK A. GARBUTT The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balanc...
GIACOMO CASANOVA Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
HORACE Let him who sins when drunk be punished when sober
LEGAL MAXIM My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now.
BARBARA UPTON He was a wise man who invented beer.
UNKNOWN Wise is the man who sees beyond what's obvious.
EMAN ELLUL Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A fo...
WILLA SIBERT CATHER The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief
RALPH WALDO EMERSON O! green bottle come & take my frustrations away,so says the drunk.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He was a wise man who invented God.
PLATO He was a wise man who invented beer.
PLATO Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
KING SOLOMON A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN A man who is wise is only as wise as his wife thinks he is.
VIKRANT PARSAI Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
E. W. HOWE The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of disti...
DIOGENES Son, when you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or loose, its how drunk you ge...
DAN CASTELLANETA Hes the smartest dog Ive ever had,
PETER GOULD Usually he stays close to home in Severn.
KATHY BARNEY He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
KING SOLOMON He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
DECIMUS LABERIUS The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
ADLAI STEVENSON The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know.
LAO TZU Gay actors have been playing straight since Euripides.
BRYAN BATT Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he ...
CONFUCIUS Hes doing better than what we thought.
JAMIE KING A wise man once said: Forgive and forget its a better choice in life" - Gavhi Theron.P
GAVHI THERON Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
CRISS JAMI Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
ELBERT HUBBARD The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every ...
THEODOR HERZL The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because o...
ALAN JACOBS The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks
YIDDISH PROVERB It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
XENOPHANES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
DIOGENES It takes a wise man to discover a wise man
DIOGENES There was good chemistry between us and I think we formed a good partnership together, with her bein...
SEAN BEAN The man who talks to his wife about his dog instead of singing a love song is a wise man.
VIKRANT PARSAI Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death.
JACOBY SHADDIX A fool who thinks that he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man. The fool who thinks that he...
SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BUDDHISM He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A wise man is he who understands that anybody else can be wiser.
JECON B. NADELA In a fight with a fool it is a wise man who quits.
VIKRANT PARSAI Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
FELIX FRANKFURTER One loyal friend,” Euripides reminds us, “is worth ten thousand relatives.
STACY SCHIFF He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VOLTAIRE When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards.
TOBA BETA When a wise man offers advice, only a fool would refuse it.
DUSTIN H. MATHENY A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
JONATHAN SWIFT When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
PROVERB It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
FRENCH PROVERB Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
SAADI O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies
MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI He also finds it hard when others around him leave and he stays
TERRY HICKS No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere...
NATHAN ELMO MELO The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Don't envy the wise, pity them. A wise man is a man who's had a hard life.
JOVIAN KRYNICKI Hes ready to go every morning. He runs right over to the cruiser,
PETER GOULD It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
AESCHYLUS Wise man learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
CATO THE CENSOR A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.
OLASOT Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to ...
SUE MERRELL What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
FLEMISH PROVERB When, we surrender to the universe, we are its instruments; when we rebel against the universe, stil...
DR HITESH C SHETH A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but hes not a man of action...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
THEODOR REIK Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
WILLIAM PENN Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment?No man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and...
GEORGE CARLIN But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its a...
DAN BROWN Getting someone drunk or stoned before sex isn't foreplay - its rape!
TERENCE T. GORSKI Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which ...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
JAMES LOVELOCK A smart man knows when it is time to keep quiet, and when to speak. Moreover, a wise man considers t...
ERALDO BANOVAC I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
H.L. MENCKEN

More Euripides

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
EURIPIDES One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
EURIPIDES He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
EURIPIDES He is not a lover who does not love forever.
EURIPIDES The greatest pleasure of life is love.
EURIPIDES There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happi...
EURIPIDES Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
EURIPIDES Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak ones thought.
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
EURIPIDES But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
EURIPIDES The wavering mind is but a base possession.
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom.
EURIPIDES Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
EURIPIDES Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EURIPIDES The language of truth is simple.
EURIPIDES People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
EURIPIDES Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns...
EURIPIDES It is change; all yields its place and goes.
EURIPIDES Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
EURIPIDES Authority is never without hate.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.
EURIPIDES Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
EURIPIDES Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES There is the sky, which is all men's together.
EURIPIDES That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
EURIPIDES There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
EURIPIDES In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
EURIPIDES No one who lives in error is free.
EURIPIDES Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
EURIPIDES Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES To have found you is a dear happiness; and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes; but there is s...
EURIPIDES Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.
EURIPIDES 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
EURIPIDES Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
EURIPIDES Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EURIPIDES To generous souls every task is noble.
EURIPIDES Noble fathers have noble children.
EURIPIDES To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
EURIPIDES Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EURIPIDES The bold are helpless without cleverness.
EURIPIDES The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.
EURIPIDES Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
EURIPIDES Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
EURIPIDES Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperce...
EURIPIDES The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
EURIPIDES There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, ...
EURIPIDES The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can c...
EURIPIDES It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EURIPIDES O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
EURIPIDES The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
EURIPIDES Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
EURIPIDES Cleverness is not wisdom
EURIPIDES A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
EURIPIDES I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
EURIPIDES Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
EURIPIDES It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
EURIPIDES God helps him who strives hard.
EURIPIDES The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves
EURIPIDES Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
EURIPIDES It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
EURIPIDES Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
EURIPIDES Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
EURIPIDES There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscien...
EURIPIDES The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.
EURIPIDES Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.
EURIPIDES There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.
EURIPIDES The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
EURIPIDES Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
EURIPIDES Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
EURIPIDES There is just one life for each of us: our own.
EURIPIDES When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
EURIPIDES No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them...
EURIPIDES Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
EURIPIDES Dionysus. Wilt thou be led By me, and try the venture?
EURIPIDES You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in...
EURIPIDES For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And dev...
EURIPIDES Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!
EURIPIDES What else is Wisdom? What of man's endeavour
Or God's high grace, so lovely and so great?
EURIPIDES Isn’t it delightful to forget how old we are?
EURIPIDES This town must learn,
even against its will, how much it costs
to scorn a God's mysteries ...
EURIPIDES [Diontsos].
Swoony type,
long hair, bedroom eyes,
cheeks like wine.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, Son of God,
do you see our sufferings?
Do you see your faithful
in helple...
EURIPIDES Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.
EURIPIDES The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES O Dionysus, we feel you near,
stirring like molten lava
under the ravaged earth,
flow...
EURIPIDES Come, God --
Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus --
burst into life, burst
into being, be a ...
EURIPIDES My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.
EURIPIDES Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling
can corrupt an honest woman.
EURIPIDES Prepare yourselves
for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!
EURIPIDES Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recallin...
EURIPIDES He who believes needs no explanation.
EURIPIDES He is life's liberating force.
He is release of limbs and communion through dance.
He is l...
EURIPIDES Young man,
two are the forces most precious to mankind.
The first is Demeter, the Goddess...
EURIPIDES Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EURIPIDES Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
EURIPIDES The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
EURIPIDES A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
EURIPIDES Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
EURIPIDES Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour
EURIPIDES Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappoint...
EURIPIDES Soon all of you immortals
Will be as dead as we are!
Come on then, what are you waiting f...
EURIPIDES Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
EURIPIDES But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,...
EURIPIDES Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I hav...
EURIPIDES Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
EURIPIDES A sweet thing, for whatever time,
to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.
EURIPIDES A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first;
a viper is not more hateful.
EURIPIDES Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
EURIPIDES The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
EURIPIDES A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
EURIPIDES I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
EURIPIDES Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
EURIPIDES Your very silence shows you agree.
EURIPIDES Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
EURIPIDES The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us ...
EURIPIDES Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
EURIPIDES Do not consider painful what is good for you.
EURIPIDES Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
EURIPIDES When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction.
EURIPIDES When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
EURIPIDES Youth holds no society with grief.
EURIPIDES What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
EURIPIDES My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
EURIPIDES Leave no stone unturned.
EURIPIDES In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
EURIPIDES I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and p...
EURIPIDES You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
EURIPIDES Time cancels young pain.
EURIPIDES Friends show their love in times of trouble...
EURIPIDES I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
EURIPIDES Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.
EURIPIDES This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
EURIPIDES Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
EURIPIDES Time will reveal everything to posterity; it is a babbler and speaks even when no question is put
EURIPIDES Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
EURIPIDES Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
EURIPIDES Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
EURIPIDES Waste not fresh tears over old griefs
EURIPIDES What anger worse or slower to abate than lovers love when it turns to hate.
EURIPIDES The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.
EURIPIDES I sacrifice to no god save myself- And to my belly, greatest of deities.
EURIPIDES If there are no gods,All our toil is without meaning.
EURIPIDES For a sickness, love is the healthiest
EURIPIDES Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
EURIPIDES Prosperity is full of friends.
EURIPIDES Unhappiness remembering happiness.
EURIPIDES The wisest men follow their own direction
EURIPIDES Often a noble face hides filthy ways
EURIPIDES Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
EURIPIDES Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman
EURIPIDES Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
EURIPIDES There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one
EURIPIDES All is change; all yields its place and goes
EURIPIDES The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.
EURIPIDES If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
EURIPIDES The man that isn't jolly after drinking Is just a driveling idiot, to my thinking
EURIPIDES Money is the wise man's religion
EURIPIDES Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.
EURIPIDES This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
EURIPIDES No one is happy all his life long.
EURIPIDES In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
EURIPIDES The lucky person passes for a genius.
EURIPIDES Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
EURIPIDES When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES Cowards do not count in battle; they are there but not in it
EURIPIDES It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished
EURIPIDES If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES