Pindar Quotes

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else. ~ Pindar

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes. ~ Pindar

Many a time the thing left silent makes for happiness. ~ Pindar

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow. ~ Pindar

Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil. ~ Pindar

But in one short span of time winds quickly shift direction, veering back and forth. ~ Pindar

You should be living your life like a cavalry charge, or at least writing about it." Robert Knight in 'Hoofing It ~ Ian M Pindar

Even now I am full of hope, but the end lies in God. ~ Pindar

Become what you are. ~ Pindar

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. ~ Pindar

Sweet is war to those who know it not. ~ Pindar

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible. ~ Pindar

There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them. ~ Pindar

Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering. ~ Pindar

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death. ~ Pindar

A good deed hidden in silence dies. ~ Pindar

Men are the dreams of a shadow. ~ Pindar

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes. ~ Pindar

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly. ~ Pindar

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise. ~ Pindar

Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse. ~ Pindar

The best of healers is good cheer. ~ Pindar

Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength. ~ Pindar

Time is the best preserver of righteous men. ~ Pindar

A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well. ~ Pindar

The young man was sort of ... well ... peering at this shovel, and Lisey knew not by his face but by the whole awkward this-way-n-that jut of his lanky body that he didn't have any idea what he was seeing. It could have been an artillery shell, a bonsai tree, a radiation detector, or a china pig with a slot in its back for spare silver; it could have been a whang-dang-doodle, a phylactery testifying to the pompetus of love, or a cloche hat made out of coyote skin. It could have been the penis of the poet Pindar. This guy was too far gone to know. ~ Stephen King

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen. ~ Pindar

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth. ~ Pindar

The test of any man lies in action. ~ Pindar

For lawless joys a bitter ending waits. ~ Pindar

Water is the best of all things. ~ Pindar

Success for the striven washes away the effort of striving. ~ Pindar

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us. ~ Pindar

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied. ~ Pindar

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. ~ Pindar

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high. ~ Pindar

Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth. ~ Pindar

With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us. ~ Pindar

Convention is the ruler of all. ~ Pindar

The present will not long endure. ~ Pindar

I will be small in small things, great among great. ~ Pindar

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. ~ Pindar

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching. ~ Pindar

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more. ~ Pindar

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels. ~ Pindar

He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration. ~ Pindar

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. ~ Pindar

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath. ~ Pindar

What did we talk about?

I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my knee. We had too many cups of tea and then didn't want to leave the table to go to the bathroom because we didn't want to stop talking. You will think we talked of revolution but we didn't. Nor did we talk of our own souls. Nor of sewing. Nor of babies. Nor of departmental intrigue. It was political if by politics you mean the laboratory talk that characters in bad movies are perpetually trying to convey (unsuccessfully) when they Wrinkle Their Wee Brows and say (valiantly--dutifully--after all, they didn't write it) "But, Doctor, doesn't that violate Finagle's Constant?" I staggered to the bathroom, released floods of tea, and returned to the kitchen to talk. It was professional talk. It left my grey-faced and with such concentration that I began to develop a headache. We talked about Mary Ann Evans' loss of faith, about Emily Brontë's isolation, about Charlotte Brontë's blinding cloud, about the split in Virginia Woolf's head and the split in her economic condition. We talked about Lady Murasaki, who wrote in a form that no respectable man would touch, Hroswit, a little name whose plays "may perhaps amuse myself," Miss Austen, who had no more expression in society than a firescreen or a poker. They did not all write letters, write memoirs, or go on the stage. Sappho--only an ambiguous, somewhat disagreeable name. Corinna? The teacher of Pindar. Olive Schriener, gr ~ Joanna Russ

Law , the king of all mortals and immortals. ~ Pindar

Mankind is a dream of a shadow. ~ Pindar

Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind. ~ Pindar

I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,
or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet. ~ Henry David Thoreau

If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong. ~ Pindar

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve. ~ Pindar

Even success softens not the heart of the envious. ~ Pindar

He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar. ~ E. M. Forster

War is sweet to those who never tried it. ~ Pindar

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen. ~ Pindar

He who studies to imitate the poet Pindar, O Julius, relies on artificial wings fastened on with wax, and is sure to give his name to a glassy sea. ~ Horace

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity. ~ Pindar

Words have a longer life than deeds. ~ Pindar

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes. ~ Pindar

I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action. ~ Pindar

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know. ~ Pindar