Would be Quote by Alexander the Great Download Open image “But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.” — Alexander the Great ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Would be
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel,… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes,… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great, who said on his wedding night, It's only a nickname. Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
“Then he’d given Alexander the territories of Armenia, Media, and the unconquered empire of Parthia.” — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
“At last, he began to discourse of fortune and human affairs. "Is it meet," said he, "for him that knows he is but man,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. { His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle }” — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well; — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory! — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife:… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start… — Red Auerbach Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer Copy Share Image
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
I'm a film guy. I love it. When I read the screenplay, I knew that there would be no HD camera that could achieve… — Deon Taylor Copy Share Image
The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships.… — William Henry Pickering Copy Share Image
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
