Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
Hesiod
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Hesiod
Mythographer
Poet
Rhapsode
Writer
Hesiodus
Trust
Woman
Thief
Thieves
More quotes by Hesiod
Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
Hesiod
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod
Invite your friend to dinner have nothing to do with your enemy.
Hesiod
It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.
Hesiod
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
Hesiod
Bacteria: The only culture some people have.
Hesiod
The potter is at enmity with the potter.
Hesiod
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Hesiod
This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.
Hesiod
Do not put all your goods in hollow ships.
Hesiod
Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
Hesiod
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.
Hesiod
An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.
Hesiod
Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.
Hesiod
Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.
Hesiod
Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.
Hesiod
The Gods rank work above virtues.
Hesiod
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Hesiod
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
Hesiod
A sparing tongue is the greatest treasure among men.
Hesiod