“In the time of Pythagoras that proverbial phrase Ipse dixit was introduced into ordinary life.”

“I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.”

“Choice word and measured phrase, above the reach
Of ordinary men.”

“Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss.”

“Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.”

“Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.”

“Rhythm and repetition of sounds, words and phrases make spoken poetry sound different to ordinary discourse.”

“Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.”

“From the works now extant of Aristotle, and from the system of Pythagoras… we might certainly infer that these philosophers considered the agents of change now operating in Nature, as capable of bringing about in the lapse of ages a complete revolution; and the Stagyrite even considers occasional catastrophes happening at distant intervals of time as part of the regular and ordinary course of Nature.”

“I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.”