Google is great, we can find all sorts of great quotes from the last few thousand years, but what about the great quotes from those out of reach of oral traditions and written history.

Lets have some fun and recreate some of the great quotes the wise men might have said many thousands of years ago.

I will start with my made up quote of what a wise man might once have said;

"The bigger the tip of a mans spear the smaller his ... "

So, my first attempt really sucks but it was the best I could come up with two seconds after thinking about this thread. I do expect some of you to come up with much better ones, not the lame humor type from our own time period, but something meaningful from past times.

It is not the darkness outside the village we should fear but that which is in our very hearts.

About wine:

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes c. 450 - 385 B.
Knights [424 B.C.], l. 92

Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
The Proverbs, 31:6 - 7

Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
Euripides c. 485 - 406 B.C.
The Bacchae [c. 407 B.C.], l. 274

Surely you dont beleive in the gods !,
Whats your argument ?
Wheres your proof ?
-Aristophanes

Carpe Diem
-Horace

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.


- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)



and one of my favorites

There is danger in both belief and unbelief

- Phaedrus (15 BC - 50 AD)

The following are from Albert Einstein.. He was also a spiritual being aside from his wisdom.


"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."

"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."




I am a firm beleiver in heightened intuition since I am gifted in it....and the last speaks for its self. I am adamently opposed to the ego of self.

I think that when it comes down to modern examples of great people to draw from, I'd have to pick Tupac Shakur (the rapper), the man was a great poet outside of his rap career and he has a lot of good quotes, I will share a few of them that I really like.

"Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in the end no matter how hard we fight."

"But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to beat me. They're going to come 100 percent, so if I dont be 100 percent pure-hearted, I'm going to lose. And thats why I'm losing."

"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."

"I feel like role models today are not meant to be put on a pedestal. But more like angels with broken wings"

"It always happens, all the niggaz that change the world die, they dont get to die like regular people, they die violently"

With this or on it.

- a Spartan mother arming her son with a hoplon

one we all love:

I think therefore I am. - Descartes

Wikipedia: Lilith from The Alphabet of Ben Sira

After God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone.' He then created a woman for Adam, from the earth, as He had created Adam himself, and called her Lilith. Adam and Lilith immediately began to fight. She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air.

Builders at Stonehenge, "Run that by me again, you want that big long stone put how high?"

Landscape gardeners in Babylon, "what do you want me to hang these gardens off?"

"Bronze axes, bronze a-x-e-s? they'll never catch on"

"Oh sh*t!" - last words of the first man to speak.

There is a prediction that was supposedly made by Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office Charles H. Duell. The words attributed to him were: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." The date given was 1899.

"Be excellent to each other and PARTY ON DUDES!"
Abe Lincoln from Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure

That's cool. Or leave Lincoln out of it. Just Bill and Ted: Be Excellent to Each Other...
Or Socrates: "All we are is dust in the wind..."

There are some great ones here

Remeber, the point of this thread is not to quote someone from the past, but to make up a quote from those from our ancient past whos great words of wisdom were not recorded.

...Come back (home) with this or on it. (The hoplon was the body-length shield.)

Got it Im feeling the theme now i,ll do some research and post back

"No sir....the other eye" (Hardy as Nelson fails to see the french fleet through his telescope)

yea i believe it was Ted and Bill who said it when they went to the future

or how about "duu duu duu! duu duu duu!" when Wayne and Garth flashback lmao

"Rah! Grug grug ooth ooth ooth!"

Lorm the Neanderthal.

Heck, quarterbacks say that all Fall!

'You call that a knife'

-Famous last words of Julius Caesar

I am here to chew bubblegum and Kick ass and I am all out of bubblegum. - Roddy Piper - They Live (1986)

Kill them all and let God sort them out. - DukeNukem( I think)

This is the first time I have actually read the conversation between Adam and Lilith. Umm I would have just let her have her way first lol silly Adam ~_~

OK back on topic:

It matters not if the enemy can see us it only matters that they fear us. Hidden or in sight let us put fear in their hearts @ the first tribal battle

Do not listen to her she is ruining her food @ the first time a woman cooked over fire and the tribal chief was saying she was crazy for doing so as he bit into raw bloody meat

Joseph was not holy because he rejected the advances from Potiphar's wife, he was holy because he did not attempt to ruin her name after she had ruined his @ three years ago the pastor in church said this but i can imagine one of potiphar's servants telling another servant this

Or alternatively:

"Chief, chief! I left the meat that I scraped off the mammoth's butt beside the fire and... look!"

"You idiot, now it's all ruined! As a punishment, you must eat this foul meat. But first you must eat my fist. *smack* Then some of that dirt. *whomp* No tasty, dripping eucladoceros' rib for you!"

Or:

"Whew, that was one big wildfire! I'm never eating those mushrooms again. Also I'm pretty hungry. There's dead animals lying all over the place but they all look kind of... brown."


The stone age jocks probably called the scrawny guy who was experimenting with the bow and arrow a nerd. Then when they finally understood the potential of the invention, they traded it for a chance to hold Janine's petite, hairy hand.

They Live - a fine John Carpenter flick! (And a really clever way to comment on modern society, the corporate structure and world systems theory!)

John Carpenter chews bubble gum & kicks ass...