Hercules Quotes

47 quotes by 34 authors

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone.… — Anthony Trollope
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of… — Juvenal
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy… — Thomas Huxley
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules. — Thomas Carlyle
If you could have the arms of Hercules, legs as swift as the wind. If you could leap shoulder high above the rim, have the… — Andrea Bocelli
Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds? — Bonnie Tyler
The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds of a great… — Francois Arago
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth. — Agatha Christie
Your prayer must be for a healthy mind in a sound body. Ask for a brave soul that has no fear of death, deems length… — Juvenal
If you ever watched 'Hercules,' you can see that it was made in a comical way for the most part. I remember getting lots of… — Kevin Sorbo
Doctor Johnson said, that in sickness there were three things that were material; the physician, the disease, and the patient: and if any two of… — Francis Bacon
The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules. — Baltasar Gracian
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,… — William Shakespeare
By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules! — Stella Adler
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work… — Gretchen Rubin
I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment… — Richard Bode
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I honestly never expected… — Steve Donoghue
I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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