black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

Sophocles

It is better not to live at all than to live disgraced.
SOPHOCLES

Better Grace Live
To the person who is afraid, everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES

Afraid Person Rustle
If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.
SOPHOCLES

Aware Dangerous Live Trouble Watch Yourself
There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
SOPHOCLES

Call Cry Milk Past Proverb
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
SOPHOCLES

Born Kindness One Liner
Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.
SOPHOCLES

God Himself Life Live
You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
SOPHOCLES

Ideas Kill Man Yourself
Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death–what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.
SOPHOCLES

Count Death Empty Happiness Hope Live Man Myself Worth
They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.
SOPHOCLES

God Himself Love Rule Stand Wisdom
You don’t know what kind of day you will have, until evening.
SOPHOCLES

Day Kind Type Yourself
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
SOPHOCLES

Advice Bad Hate
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
SOPHOCLES

Advice One Liner Talk Wisdom
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
SOPHOCLES

Greatness Grief Ourselves
Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)
SOPHOCLES

Delay Hate One Liner Truth
Time is the only test of honest men, one day is space enough to know a rogue.
SOPHOCLES

Day Honesty Oneself Space Test Time
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLES

Acceptance Friendship Oneself Possession

I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sophocles Quotes