Search results for 1st century BCE

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Andersen

Know thyself.

Ancient Greek maxim (associated with Socrates and Plato)

Appearances can be deceiving.

Popular Culture (variously attributed, including Aesop's Fables)

Forewarned is forearmed.

Popular culture

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

Heavy is the head that wears the crown.

William Shakespeare