#wit

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. ↗

— Euripides

#beat #head #hundred #led #soldiers

I'd love to do a modern-day musical that's full of original music. To get your contemporaries to sing and dance without looking foolish and for it to be transformational and magical and all those things a musical is supposed to be. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#dance #foolish #full #get #i

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#defeats #endure #faith #fashion #heretic

The bold are helpless without cleverness. ↗

— Euripides

#cleverness #helpless #without

Authority is never without hate. ↗

— Euripides

#hate #never #without

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them. ↗

— Robert Boyle

#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#complete #country #decide #democracy #education

It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#become #change #economy #happen #help

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#admire #desiring #secret #without

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that? ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#bounds #children #die #how #instant