Memorable Quotes and quotations from Simonides

Simonides Greek poet (556 BC - 468 BC)


Simonides -
- Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides - Epitaph for the Spartans who fell at Thermopylae
- Go tell the Spartans,
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie.

Simonides - from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras
- Not even the gods fight against necessity.