Food & Drink Sayings

28 sayings found from the Ancient era from 28 authors

Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.

— Zoroaster c. 6th century BC
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My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

— Alexander the Great Before 336 BCE
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It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

— Julius Caesar Approx. 44 BCE
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If any one ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death.

— Hammurabi c. 1754 BCE
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A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

— Pericles c. 431 BCE
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He would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.

— Socrates c. 380 BCE (Xenophon's writing)
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato c. 399 BCE (Apology), c. 380 BCE (Ion)
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

— Aristotle c. 330 BCE
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When anger spreads through the breath, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

— Sappho c. 630-570 BC (original composition)
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

— Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) c. 5th century BCE
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

— Confucius c. 5th century BCE
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The greatest conquest is to conquer oneself.

— Laozi Unknown
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The greatest mistake of a man is to think that he is not a man.

— Mahavira c. 6th-5th century BCE
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The surface of any sphere is four times its greatest circle.

— Archimedes c. 250 BCE
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The library at Alexandria is the greatest treasure in the world.

— Eratosthenes c. 240 BCE
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The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

— Cleopatra Unknown
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A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

— Marcus Aurelius c. 161-180 AD
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

— Seneca c. 65 AD
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The greater part of what we say and do is unnecessary, and if a man would cut it out, he would have more leisure and less disturbance.

— Epictetus c. 108 AD
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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.

— Sun Tzu c. 5th century BC
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