Quote

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

Euripides

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Euripides
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Ancient Athens
Desert
Husband
Violence
Women
Different
Like
Husbands

More quotes by Euripides

Image
Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.
Euripides
Image
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides
Image
Few have greater riches than the joy That comes to us in visions, In dreams which nobody can take away.
Euripides
Image
God helps him who strives hard.
Euripides
Image
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Euripides
Image
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.
Euripides
Image
All is change all yields its place and goes.
Euripides
Image
None wise dares hopeless venture.
Euripides
Image
He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep.
Euripides
Image
Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.
Euripides
Image
Money is the wise man's religion.
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
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
Euripides
Image
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
Euripides
Image
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
Euripides
Image
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Euripides
Image
Woman is woman's natural ally.
Euripides
Image
Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?
Euripides
Image
The wife should yield in all things to her lord
Euripides
Image
All men know their children mean more than life.
Euripides