Drachmas Quotes & Sayings

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I can't figure you out, Emily." His words were tight yet even. "I don't know if I like you or if I just want to fuck you. — Laurelin Paige

All the horror is in just this
that there is no horror ... — Aleksandr Kuprin

I decline to buy repentance at the cost often thousand drachmas. — Demosthenes

For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash 75By any indirection. — William Shakespeare

Gift bread chokes in a man's throat and poisons his blood, and sits like lead upon the heart. — Anthony Trollope

Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I'd even had the opportunity to sin. — Kristen Reed

A wife's power is not to prove her husband but rather to improve him. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length? — Aeschylus

I had changed my francs into drachmas on the boat; it seemed like a tremendous wad that I had stuffed into my pocket and I felt that I could meet the bill no matter how exorbitant it might be. I knew we were going to be gypped and I looked forward to it with relish. The only thing that was solidly fixed in my mind about the Greeks was that you couldn't trust them; I would have been disappointed if our guide had turned out to be magnanimous and chivalrous. — Henry Miller

But that was always the case. People hardly ever saw their children as they really were. — Rohinton Mistry

I think the Marine Corps has forgotten where Pavuvu is," one man said.
"I think God has forgotten where Pavuvu is," came a reply.
"God couldn't forget because he made everything."
"Then I bet he wishes he could forget he made Pavuvu. — Eugene B. Sledge

The Road to Hell is Paved With Bad Intentions — Vicky Loebel

Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me. — Plutarch