Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

“Time for the last stupid deed! Are you excited? Hercules was. He was ready to be done with this nonsense. So was the poor…

— Rick Riordan

“Tertullian recounts the narrative of Jesus, whose labors (unlike Hercules’s) did not include killing, capturing, and stealing43 but who instead kept a low profile,…

— Alan Kreider

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

— Agatha Christie

“Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.”

— David Burr Gerrard

“The twelve gods of Olympus aren’t entities we worship. They’re nothing more than fallen angels who turned away from the Creator for their own…

— Elisabeth Naughton

“I looked him in the eyes and hoped my threat would work. I know it seems ridiculous, a sixteen-year-old trying to stare down a…

— Rick Riordan

“Finally they reached the Colosseum, where a dozen guys in cheap gladiator costumes were scuffling with the police—plastic swords versus batons. Percy wasn’t sure…

— Rick Riordan

“My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules.”

— William Shakespeare

“No one realises that some individuals consume herculesque forces only to be normal.”

— Albert Camus

“We are the poem's ancient band of twelve that proceeds through the ages. There were twelve of us, when we ruled the world on…

— Selma Lagerlöf

“people who were working that day, the ten-of-twelve.”

— John Sandford