Quote

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

Aeschylus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aeschylus
Dramatist
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Warrior
Elefsina
Æschylus
Aeschylos
Wells
Wipe
Well
Strokes
Wipes
Men
Alas
Sponge
Picture
Sponges
Shadow
Overthrow
Destiny
Unkind
Goes
Stroke
Poor
Wet

More quotes by Aeschylus

Image
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
Aeschylus
Image
For a deadly blow let him pay with a deadly blow: it is for him who has done a deed to suffer.
Aeschylus
Image
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
Aeschylus
Image
Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.
Aeschylus
Image
By Time and Age full many things are taught.
Aeschylus
Image
In the sinews of the dead there is no blood.
Aeschylus
Image
There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
Aeschylus
Image
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Aeschylus
Image
For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
Aeschylus
Image
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
Aeschylus
Image
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
Aeschylus
Image
Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.
Aeschylus
Image
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
Aeschylus
Image
The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.
Aeschylus
Image
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
Aeschylus
Image
But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
Aeschylus
Image
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.
Aeschylus
Image
Number, the most excellent of all inventions.
Aeschylus
Image
Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.
Aeschylus
Image
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus