"Those who are skilled in archery bend their……" — Herodotus

"Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis"

Allow Quotes Amusement Quotes Amusements Quotes Archery Quotes Arrived Quotes Bend Quotes Bow Quotes Bows Quotes Breaking Quotes Business Quotes Business Without Quotes Cheerful Quotes Devote Quotes Dull Quotes Dull Round Quotes Fall Quotes Idiocy Quotes Imperceptibly Quotes Into Quotes Man Quotes Men Quotes Monotony Quotes Only Quotes Otherwise Quotes Paralysis Quotes Preparing Quotes Remain Quotes Require Quotes Round Quotes Skilled Quotes Struck Quotes They Allow Quotes Time Quotes Unbent Quotes Unceasingly Quotes Unserviceable Quotes Use Quotes Using Quotes Without Breaking Quotes

90 Quotes by Herodotus

Herodotus has 90 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

See all 90 quotes by Herodotus »

More Allow Quotes

This quote is filed under Allow Quotes, one of 3,313 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

See all 3,313 Allow Quotes »