Heard Quote by Plutarch Download Open image “Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.” — Plutarch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heard Law Noise Said Spokes War
The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We seldom get into trouble when we speak softly. It is only when we raise our voices that the sparks fly and tiny molehills… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“The loudest wars are not fought on battlefields, but in the quiet chambers of the mind.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
“In times of war, the law falls silent. Silent enim leges inter arma ” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the Pythagorean believes that, like the sun and moon, it revolves around the fire in an oblique circle. Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythagorean make the earth move, not in a progressive motion, but like… — Plutarch Copy Share
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is… — Anonymous Copy Share
I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that… — David Pajo Copy Share
I've heard some pretty bad things in my life. I'm just one of those people I've gotten to a point where I don't want… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard. — Pat Boone Copy Share Image
Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image