Quotes About Spartan

Just before the Battle of Thermoplyae, a Spartan warrior named Dienekes was told that the Persian archers could blank out the sun with their arrows. He replied Good, then we shall have our battle in the shade.

At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.

My feelings about women in general have been shaped by mother in particular--and Placidia, while nearly always loving and approachable to her children, raised us on a Spartan diet of independent thought, moral integrity, and self-reliance that has shaped our relations with the world, making our paths more difficult but the journey more meaningful.

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

A journey is not a cure. It brings an illusion, only, of change, and becomes at best a spartan comfort

MacMurrough shifted his gaze from the thick spittle-wet mouth and stared instead through the garden windows. What a dreary drunk he was. He recalled the Spartan custom of inebriating slaves that young men should see how contemptible was drunkenness. Nowadays we leave it to our leshishlashors.

Back in Nina's large Spartan bedroom, the three of them plunked their sore, beat-up frames into the same seats they'd chosen before the madness.

Fred swiped two fingers across his faceplate in a Spartan smile

Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

they all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met, writing what is on every man's lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much.

That's the attitude I approach everything with: I don't want there to be a lot of dressing on anything.

Yes, Hart, I went commando to a diplomatic function," Harry said, and then motioned to his body. "And now, as you can see, I'm going Spartan so a midget can whack me with a stick." He bent and picked up his Bongka. "Honestly, Hart. Help me out here. Focus a little.

Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.

the maxim of the famous Spartan nurses: never expose a small child to fear, let him enter confidently on boyhood.

Hitler wanted to transform Germany into a new Spartan nation and army. His only fault is to have sought expansion too, instead of being satisfied with what he had already acquired.