Comedy Quote by Eddie Izzard

“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.”

— Troy DeNuthe

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Socrates roamed and surrounded by the oppositions in Athens, like a lion that's surrounded by hyenas in the forest.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would…

— Os Guinness

I wonder if Socrates and Plato took a house on Crete during the summer.

— Woody Allen

“It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the…

— Arthur Koestler

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Plutarch

“I usually try not to stay the night at any of the Greek houses because I hate waking up in them. The next morning,…

— Kimberly Lauren

“He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstained shapes of flooded cities burned to…

— Cormac McCarthy

“If home isn't a place, what is it?' 'A feeling.”

— Julianna Baggott

“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices.…

— Nora Roberts

“A house is sometimes wine. It is sometimes more than a skin.”

— William Carlos Williams