Theocritus Quotes

• Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

  Theocritus

  Beautiful, Lasts, Youth

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• Trying will do anything in this world.

  Theocritus

  Inspirational, Success, Trying

  Theocritus (1905). “The Idylls and Epigrams of Theocritus, Bion and Moschus”

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• Man will ever stand in need of man.

  Theocritus

  Men, Needs

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• Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.

  Theocritus

  Friendship, Grace, May

  Theocritus (1947). “A Translation of the Idylls of Theocritus”, Cambridge : University Press

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• Cats will always lie soft.

  Theocritus

  Lying, Cat

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• Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

  Theocritus

  Song, Hawks, Ants

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.60, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

  Theocritus

  Beauty, Prejudice, Delightful

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• The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying.

  Theocritus

  Greek, Trying, Done

  Theocritus, Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (1952). “Theocritus”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed,
  That man of man should ever stand in need.

  Theocritus

  Men, Heaven, Needs

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• Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

  Theocritus

  Dream, Sleep, Fishing

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• Men shall look on thee and murmur to each other, "Lo! how small Was the gift, and yet how precious! Friendship 's gifts are priceless all.

  Theocritus

  Men, Looks, Priceless

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.127, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

  Theocritus

  Beauty, Ivory, Evil

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• The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

  Theocritus

  Godly, Wicked, Wells

  theocritus “idylls, or, early Greek love lyrics”, Lulu.com

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• Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

  Theocritus

  Faults, Surveys

  Theocritus, Bion (of Phlossa near Smyrna.), Moschus, Tyrtaeus (1822). “The Idyllia, Epigrams, and Fragments, of Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus: And the Elegies of Tyrtaeus”, p.31

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• Youth passes like a dream.

  Theocritus

  Dream, Youth, Aging

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• Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

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• Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

  Theocritus

  Eye, Alaska, Faults

  Theocritus (1767). “The Idylliums of Theocritus”, p.61

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• Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

  Theocritus

  Kindness, May, Littles

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• Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

  Theocritus

  Wings, Gone, Sides

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics

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• Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

  Theocritus

  Age, Frost, Firsts

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• All cats love a cushioned couch.

  Theocritus

  Cat, Couches, Cat Love

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• Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

  Theocritus

  Music, Song, Tomorrow

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