Hesiod Quotes

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

Hesiod

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: greek
  • Birth: 800 BC - 720 BC

Topics

ShameSourceToilIdleness

Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.

Jeremy Sisto

GoodConfidenceJobLawEndCareer

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

John Curran

GoodTimeMyselfHaving A Good Time

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Maya Angelou

KnowledgeYouthLossMoreUpGain

Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions.

John Wesley Shipp

PeopleBookUniverseMagicHumanity

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Russell Simmons

KnowledgePovertyMustChallenged

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

Mary Gaitskill

PeopleBelieveI BelieveDifferent

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

Lorrie Moore

FunnyDinnerTablePartySayNever

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

Brittany Murphy

HistoryTimeVoiceHonorFirst Time

One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.

Bruce Lipton

FatEnvironmentMoreFirstTurn

I think hygiene is so important.

Tom Brady

ThinkImportantHygieneI Think

Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.

Norman Borlaug

TechnologyPastSeedsSmallNumbers

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

Leslie Fiedler

InfluenceThinkAmericanLiterature

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