| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Euripides |
| | | [Greek]—He is the best diviner who conjectures well. | 1 |
| [Greek]—I hate a learned woman. Let no woman in my house know more than a woman should. | 2 |
| [Greek]—My tongue has sworn, but my mind is unsworn. | 3 |
| [Greek]—There is always a pleasure in variety. | 4 |
| [Greek]—What is natural is never shameful. | 5 |
| [Greek]—Where there is no longer any wine there is no love. | 6 |
| Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He who imputes ill to them makes them none. | 7 |
| Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event. | 8 |
| He is wise that is wise to himself. | 9 |
| Silence and discretion are specially becoming in a woman, and to remain quietly at home. | 10 |
| The language of truth is simple. | 11 |
| The sorrow of Yesterday is as nothing; that of To-day is bearable; but that of To-morrow is gigantic, because indistinct. | 12 |
| Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. | 13 |
| To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. | 14 |
| Youth holds no society with grief. | 15 |
| Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. | 16 | | |
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