This year I invested in pumpkins. They've been going up the whole month of October and I got a feeling they're going to peak right around January. Then bang! That's when I'll cash in.

It is equally bad when one speeds on the guest unwilling to go, and when he holds back one who is hastening. Rather one should befriend the guest who is there, but speed him when he wishes.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.