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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 38c0b48 | It is a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. | Plutarch | ||
| bfce841 | It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn a limp. | Plutarch | ||
| 450dd8b | The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. | Plutarch | ||
| d818118 | It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well. | Plutarch | ||
| e68484a | For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. | Plutarch | ||
| 8c13463 | The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education. | Plutarch | ||
| 6c2fa85 | According to the proverb, the best things are the most difficult. | Plutarch | ||
| 8d69f0b | Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye. | Plutarch | ||
| 8a471b2 | Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions. | Plutarch | ||
| 5652296 | 'T is a wise saying, Drive on your own track. | Plutarch | ||
| 2824a93 | When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back. | Plutarch | ||
| d0d3eda | An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. | Plutarch | ||
| 57c90f2 | Socrates... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. | Plutarch | ||
| d1b3826 | When the candles are out all women are fair. | Plutarch | ||
| 571985b | A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence." | Plutarch | ||
| 13eb3c6 | These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade." | Plutarch | ||
| ac59514 | Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone." | Plutarch | ||
| 717366a | King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." | Plutarch | ||
| 3126192 | Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's." | Plutarch | ||
| a8d671a | Cato the elder wondered how that city was preserved wherein a fish was sold for more than an ox. | Plutarch | ||
| 27617a4 | He said they that were serious in ridiculous matters would be ridiculous in serious affairs. | Plutarch | ||
| e4e2ad1 | Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. | Plutarch | ||
| b420103 | Young men," said Caesar, "hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young." | Plutarch | ||
| 43d9131 | The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length. | Plutarch | ||
| 3b3c558 | I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places." | Plutarch | ||
| 7513d55 | When one asked him what boys should learn, "That," said he, "which they shall use when men." | Plutarch | ||
| 3d2a394 | Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity. | Plutarch | ||
| d92de67 | It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears. | Plutarch | ||
| 224b82e | Marius said, "I see the cure is not worth the pain." | Plutarch | ||
| 9bc6c3d | Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles. | Plutarch | ||
| 1826587 | Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war. | Plutarch | ||
| c308f90 | As it is in the proverb, played Cretan against Cretan. | Plutarch | ||
| 5eb0765 | Did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus sups with Lucullus? | Plutarch | ||
| 538bb7b | The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse." | Plutarch | ||
| 195b7bb | Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun. | Plutarch | ||
| e55341a | Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp. | Plutarch | ||
| 05a475b | In his house he had a large looking-glass, before which he would stand and go through his exercises. | Plutarch | ||
| ef3460f | Euripides was wont to say, "Silence is an answer to a wise man." | Plutarch | ||
| aa3a3ee | He was a man, which, as Plato saith, is a very inconstant creature. | Plutarch | ||
| 3d7f489 | The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds. | Plutarch | ||
| 07cf627 | Custom is almost a second nature. | Plutarch | ||
| 3bc817d | Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage." | Plutarch | ||
| 30e3868 | That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far." | Plutarch | ||
| 7fd03b3 | No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. | Plutarch |