Thucydides Famous Quotes & Sayings

The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes. — George Carlin

I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever! — Kourtney Kardashian

I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet. — Count Basie

Praise the bridge that carried you over. — George Colman

A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. — Tony Blankley

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. — David Attenborough

American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison ... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent. — James Branch Cabell

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men. — Thucydides

Day climbed in first and asked. "Where's the rest of your big stuff?"

God smiled. "Joker brought his guys and put everything in a SWAT van and stored it in his garage. I only had like five pieces."

"So he was the one you called to come to your rescue, huh?" Day asked and slammed the door to the truck.

"Hey." God turned Day's chin to face him. "I swear on everything, I was miserable for those few hours and you know it."

Day pffted.

"I tracked your ass down, didn't I?" God stated.

"Yeah, you did." Day laughed when he thought about God scaring off his boy toy. He laughed so hard that God started laughing too. — A.E. Via

And yet people went on thinking this way, kind of in the way that someone who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness will go on getting up and going to work every morning, not so much out of habit as because the knowledge of impending doom makes them wish to assert an identity. — Neal Stephenson

Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. — John Steinbeck

For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war.
[Funeral Oration of Pericles] — Thucydides

Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core. — Lauren Groff

The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach. — Rex Stout

Actually, I'm an excellent liar. But what I'm really good at is appearing appropriately sheepish and adorable after I'm caught. — Julia Quinn