Boast Quote by Sophocles Download Open image “Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.” — Sophocles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Detests Detests Boasts Pride Proud Proud Tongue Tongue Zeus Zeus Detests
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast… — Homer Copy Share Image
“The great Sea God,Poseidon, could not be more pleased with himself.Although he had lost to the young Goddess, he had really won.In theory,his manhood… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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“Zeus is the king, right? (Simone) He thinks he is most days. Personally, I think he’s a pompous ass who should be bitch-slapped by… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“But on the minus side, Zeus had also had his share of fiascos. He swallowed Metis, the Goddess of Wisdom & Prudence, & thus… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Pride dwells in the thought; the tongue can have but a very little share in it. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
