Quote

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Euripides
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Ancient Athens
Marriage
Joy
Pain
Never

More quotes by Euripides

Image
How dark are all the ways of god to man!
Euripides
Image
None wise dares hopeless venture.
Euripides
Image
I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.
Euripides
Image
A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
Euripides
Image
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Euripides
Image
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness.
Euripides
Image
Fate finds for every man his share of misery.
Euripides
Image
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
Euripides
Image
Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.
Euripides
Image
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides
Image
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
Euripides
Image
Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
Euripides
Image
If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.
Euripides
Image
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
Euripides
Image
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
Euripides
Image
Life is a short affair We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Euripides
Image
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
Euripides
Image
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
Euripides
Image
To have found you is a dear happiness and to be Apollo's son is beyond all my hopes but there is something I want to say to you alone. Come this is a private matter between us two - anything you tell me shall be as secret as the grave.
Euripides
Image
When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.
Euripides