230 Quotes About Willis-barnstone

There is one God, supreme among gods and men,who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

God has in his powerto make dazzling unmixed lightspring from the somber depthsof evening. He can alsoenclose the white explosion of day under the gloom of black clouds.

The stars and the riversand waves call you back.

Mice, if you come for bread, go find another hole;I live in a humble hut.Go to some rich man's villawhere you can nibble on fat cheese and dried raisins and make a feast out of scraps.But if you come to sharpen your teeth on my booksyour supper will be a dull poison.

Passionate love relentlessly twists a chordunder my heart and spreads deep mist on my eyes,stealing the unguarded brains from my head.

One and all,you have proclaimed Pittakos, the lowborn,to be tyrant of your lifeless and doomed land. Moreover, you deafen him with praise.

Eutychides the lyric poet is dead.Escape! you who inhabit the underworld,for he comes with odes,and orders thirteen lyres and twenty crates of musicto burn beside him on his funeral pyre.Now Charon has you, for where can you escapewith Eutychides established in Hell?

Like the Mykonians, Perikles,you drink our unmixed wineand pay for nothing.You broke into this party, uninvited,and act as if among old friends.Your stomach has tricked the brains in your skulland now you are shameless.

As the figtree on its rock feeds many crows,so this simple girl sleeps with strangers.