Golden Age Of Greece Quotes & Sayings

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, Bless you. — Robert Breault

If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight. — Jerry A. Coyne

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions. So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era. — Milton Friedman

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. — Maurice Maeterlinck

Everywhere and in every society, people endure suffering and adversity - even those who enjoy freedom and material prosperity. Indeed, it seems to me that much of the unhappiness we humans endure is actually of our own making. — Dalai Lama XIV

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever. — Lee Iacocca

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to carry words farther and deeper than the eye. — Seamus Heaney

You're controlled by your cunt. Who controls your cunt, controls you. — C.D. Reiss

You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat. — Doris Day