Solon Quotes (25 Quotes)

We were missing some people, so we used some different people in different spots, ... We're fairly happy with the way we played, but we wish we could have won some of the close games. But we were in almost every game.

True blessedness consists in a good life and a happy death

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

I grow old ever learning many things.

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

I started writing the show in June and have been rewriting it ever since, seeing what works and what doesn't, ... I had some ideas for characters and have developed them, but most were entirely new.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Laws are like spider's webs, which stand firm when any light, yielding object falls upon them, while a larger thing breaks through them and escapes.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind.

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Durant-Bennett just ran a good race, ... We're excited that we have one more meet. This is not the way we wanted to end.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

We feel pretty strongly that the robust orders seen last year could drain orders from this year and next, ... The U.S. economy is showing clear signs of slowing and that could have a ripple effect on airline purchasing plans.

I hate to say it was vindication, but that is how we felt,

Learn to obey before you command.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Men and women do have different perspectives on comedy and I think we have different approaches to writing, ... But it doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, if you are funny, you're funny. Gender doesn't come into it.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Pursue worthy aims.