769 Quotes by Sophocles

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.

You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.