Lycurgus of Sparta quotes

Lycurgus of Sparta quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.”
-- Lycurgus of Sparta

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“That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.”
-- Lycurgus of Sparta

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“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”
“We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.”
“I hate the color red almost as much as i hate blond hair,"he said with an amused tone. -Dank”
“An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.”
“When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.”

Source : "Is Now the Time to Hire MBAs?" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2012.
“I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!”

Source : "hairspray on broadway!". Interview with Sarah Wassner Flynn, www.seventeen.com. March 29, 2007.
“The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another's advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.”
“Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.”
“Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.”
“I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.”

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