683 Quotes by Euripides

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband’s breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.

The wife should yield in all things to her lord.

Today’s today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

You will not achieve happiness if you don’t work hard; and it’s a shame not to want to work hard.

It would have been better far for men To have got their children in some other way, and women Not to have existed. Then life would have been good. CHORUS.

Go home to your wife. Go bury her.

I have pondered on the causes of a life’s shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind’s quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can’t bring it to achievement.

Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings.