“Making a journey by night is more wonderful than anything in the world.”
Tove Jansson book Moominpappa at Sea
Source: Moominpappa at Sea
“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.”
Variant translation: There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
Source: Antigone, Line 333 (Ode I)
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ancient Greek tragedian -496–-406 BCRelated quotes
“There aren't six or seven wonders of the world
There is no more than one: it is love.”
Jacques Prevért (1900–1977) French poet, screenwriter
Attributed
“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”
Charles de Lint book Moonheart
Moonheart (1994), p. 386
Context: Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. And this I will tell you as well: One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none.
Joseph Conrad book Under Western Eyes
Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Context: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
“You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
I Wonder What Would Happen to this World
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)
Variant: Oh, if a man tried
To take his time on earth
And prove before he died
What one man's life could be worth,
I wonder what would happen to this world.
Hannibal (-247–-183 BC) military commander of Carthage during the Second Punic War
Spoken as a jest to one of his officers named Gisgo, who had remarked on the numbers of Roman forces against them before the Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BC), as quoted in A History of Rome (1855), by Henry George Liddell Vol. 1, p. 355
Variant translation: You forget one thing Gisgo, among all their numerous forces, there is not one man called Gisgo.