Theocritus

Man will ever stand in need of man.

— Theocritus

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

— Theocritus

“While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.”

— Theocritus

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

— Theocritus

Cats will always lie soft.

— Theocritus

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

— Theocritus

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

— Theocritus

Youth passes like a dream.

— Theocritus

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

— Theocritus

Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's…

— Theocritus

The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

— Theocritus

“Cats love to sleep softly.”

— Theocritus

Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

— Theocritus

Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up…

— Theocritus

For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, That man of man should ever stand in need.

— Theocritus

“Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of men.”

— Theocritus

Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.

— Theocritus

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

— Theocritus

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

— Theocritus

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

— Theocritus

Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

— Theocritus

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

— Theocritus

The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

— Theocritus

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

— Theocritus

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

— Theocritus