Cavafy Ithaka Quotes & Sayings

Who is wise in love, love most, say least. — Alfred Tennyson

If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution. — Greg Abbott

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: "Government by Gotcha". — David Pietrusza

Though what is 'Romeo and Juliet' after all?" he added after a short pause. "The beauty of poetry and holiness of love are simply the roses under which they try to hide its rottenness. Romeo is just the same sort of animal as all the rest of us. — Anton Chekhov

stayed fixed away from her, and she wondered — Amanda Jennings

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life - the important thing, don't you agree, is to actually acknowledge and experience this fact. — Daniel Robberechts

Have Ithaka always in your mind.
Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
But don't in the least hurry the journey. — Constantine P. Cavafy

Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om. — Ashwin Sanghi

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film. — Martin Scorsese

When you set out on you journey to Ithaka, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge. — Constantine P. Cavafy

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little. — Pierre Corneille

When setting out upon your way to Ithaca,
wish always that your course be long,
full of adventure, full of lore. — Constantine P. Cavafy

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon - you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you. — Constantine P. Cavafy

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy. — Honore De Balzac

There should be no single representation in the autism world. Think about this if someone got up on stage and talked about having "non-autistic syndrome" and made the assumption every one with this syndrome is the same we would be in big trouble. That applies to autism as well - it isn't one condition, there are profile differences between Autism and AS and all autism "fruits salads" are different. That is how diverse autism is. — Paul Isaacs