Pythocles Quotes & Sayings

She's fertile, docile . . . she'd give you a child every nine months! I'll teach her how to raise the children, and that way they'll all be the way I want them to be! Isn't that wonderful? — Joel Dicker

If you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires. — Seneca.

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder. — Honore De Balzac

Beyonce is more mature, she's her own woman. She always had it in her. — Rodney Jerkins

The new captain looked up. Oh, good grief, Vimes thought. It's bloody Rust this time round!
And it was indeed the Hon. Ronald Rust, the god's gift to the enemy, any enemy, and a walking encouragement to desertion.
The Rust family had produced great soldiers, by the undemanding standards of 'Deduct your own casualties from those of the enemy, and if the answer is a positive number, it was a glorious victory' school of applied warfare. But Rust's lack of any kind of military grasp was matched only by his high opinion of the talent he in fact possessed only in negative amounts. — Terry Pratchett

If you wish Pythocles to have pleasure for ever, do not add to his pleasures, but subtract from his desires; — Seneca.

Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again. — Nicholas Sparks

General Ivolgin, like all drunkards, was very emotional, and, like all drunkards who have sunk very low, he was much upset by memories of the happy past. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Live every day like its Friday. — Simone

Only on the surface, it seems to me. The only true atheists I've ever met were people in revolt. It wasn't enough for them to coldly deny the existence of God - they had to refuse it, like Bakunin: 'Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.' They were atheists like Kirilov in The Possessed. They rejected God because they wanted to put man in his place. They were humanists, with lofty ideas about human liberty, human dignity. I don't suppose you recognize yourself in this description. — Michel Houellebecq

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. — Benjamin Graham

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. — Phyllis Diller

If you wish to make Pythocles honourable, do not add to his honours, but subtract from his desires; — Seneca.

If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires. — Epicurus