Battle Quote by Eliza Lynn Linton

“The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What would Heracles have been if he had said, "How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or…

— Epictetus

Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does…

— Jonathan Swift

Great," Percy said. "Seven of us against Hercules." "And a satyr!" Hedge added. "We can take him.

— Rick Riordan

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked,…

— Herman Melville

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

— Rick Riordan

“We make the exchange in a place where no man can bring an army, or draw a sword, on pain of death.’ Damen said,…

— C.S. Pacat

He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful…

— Catherine Fisher

I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Take this Hercules -this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!”

— Agatha Christie

Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him.

— Homer

“In Baxter’s view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the “saint like a light cloak, which can be…

— Max Weber