Top 140 Quotes by Sophocles

Silence is an ornament for women.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.'

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.