| 32 Famous Quotes by Periander of Corinth
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“Nothing is impossible to industry.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Check disease in its approach.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Each man has his fancy.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen
inches.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to
hear it said, "That is he."”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Live according to your income.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“May everything he treads upon become a rose!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Snuffling through his nose some stale joke.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“You are too sarcastic.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know
it.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“I have cut my leg with my own adze.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“The mind still longs for what it has missed, and loses itself in
the contemplation of the past.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“The pot boils badly.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“He who assists the wicked will in time rue it.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled,
is not credited even when he speaks the truth.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“He who trusts himself for safety to the care of a wicked man, in
seeking succour meets with ruin.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“However exalted our position, we should still not despise the
powers of the humble.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Liars pay the penalty of their own misdeeds.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Out of breath to no possible purpose; in attempting everything,
doing nothing.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Relaxation should at times be given to the mind, the better to
fit it for toil when resumed.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“Success brings many to ruin.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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“The poor man, while he apes the wealthy, effects his own ruin.
[The fable of frog and the cow.]”
Proverbs Quotes Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
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Periander of Corinth Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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