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Call no man happy until he is dead.


Solon

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call no man happy until he is dead
HERODOTUS Call no man happy till he is dead.
AESCHYLUS count no man happy until he be dead.
SOLON Call no man unhappy until he is married.
SOCRATES A man is not completely born until he be dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
THOMAS FULLER Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
SOPHOCLES Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the on...
HERODOTUS No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.
SOLON No man is happy. He is, at best, fortunate.
SOLON No man is a man until he has been a soldier.
LOUIS DE BERNIèRES Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.
SOLON The poor man is happy; he expects no change for the worse
DEMETRIUS No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
NAPOLEON HILL No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, to...
JOHN DRYDEN Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, t...
JOHN DRYDEN A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable
RICHARD BYRD Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can...
JOHN DRYDEN No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass life's goal.
SOPHOCLES No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.
H. L. MENCKEN No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
CHARLES STEINMETZ No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
CHARLES STEINMETZ No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
UNKNOWN No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
CHARLES P. STEINMETZ Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumpe...
VAN WYCK BROOKS A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.
SOPHOCLES No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was ...
H. L. MENCKEN No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He won't marry (Sarah) until he gets justice. … And nobody is answering his call.
LARRY HART No man is happy but by comparison.
THOMAS SHADWELL No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.
BOETHIUS, 522 [Dialogue between Solon and an Egyptian Priest]
In the Egyptian Delta, at the head of which the...
PLATO A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and lov...
PEARL BAILEY There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions
CHARLES P. STEINMETZ There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
CHARLES PROTEUS STEINMETZ No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
TERRY PRATCHETT A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My dad was my wake-up call and he said, 'Good morning, champion,' ... He is really happy. My mom cal...
MARIA SHARAPOVA Is he dead?" he inquired. "He looks dead."
"No," snapped Maryse. "He's not dead."
"Have ...
CASSANDRA CLARE No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
HONORE DE BALZAC Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS He's dead, and until he was proven guilty, which he was never proven guilty, I can only standby what...
WARREN WHITE Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no ...
MARK TWAIN A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR He's wounded no matter what. Just the fact that he had to campaign, and call on the people he's supp...
MATT ANGLE Children, you must remember something. A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no lo...
PEARL BAILEY No man is happy who does not think himself so.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich m...
STANESS JONEKOS A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ...
JAMES ALLEN A man in love is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
AESCHYLUS When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUND A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDER SOLZENITSYN A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
G. K. CHESTERTON For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has
become his intere...
MATTHEW HENRY A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defia...
HITOPADESA Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
ROBERT E. LEE The education of a man is never complete until he dies.
GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS No man is really successful until his mother-in-law admits it.
VIKRANT PARSAI Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who ...
PLUTARCH (Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, "That city," he replied, "in which those...
PLUTARCH They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
DENNIS RODMAN A happy man is one who wants what he has. An unhappy man gets what he wants but never stops wanting.
VIKRANT PARSAI No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicate...
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished.
ZSA ZSA GABOR Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
STELLA BENSON The offer of God's love, the Gospel, with its command to mankind to believe on Christ, is sent forth...
HAROLD CAMPING The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more
ALEXANDER POPE There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and pr...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined....
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in se...
A. W. TOZER When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal...
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