Aeschylus Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.87, Penguin

• Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.5, Everyman's Library

• The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.

  Aeschylus

  Mother, Children, Nursing

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.174, Oxford University Press

• Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

  Aeschylus

  Children, Soul, Arrogance

  Aeschylus (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)”, p.247, Delphi Classics

• For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

  Aeschylus

  Children, Men, Literature

• Beyond age, leaf withered, man goes three footed no stronger than a child is, a dream that falters in daylight.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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