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Euripides Quotes about Children

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All men know their children mean more than life.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Children, Mean, Men

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

Children, Parent, Doe

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

Children, Hate, Wife

Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.30, University of Chicago Press

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?

Sad, Children, Pain

Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker”

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Fathers Day, Children, Disappointment

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.

Sweet, Children, Spring

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

Children, Military, May

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

Children, Women, World

Euripides,, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2011). “The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.170, Oxford University Press

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

Children, Eye, Light

Euripides, “Children In The House”

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

Children, Mean, Men

Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Children, Father, Sin

"Phrixus". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 416 BCE.

Women's love is for their men, not for their children.

Children, Love Is, Men

Electra, l.265.

Happy is it to place a daughter; yet it pains a father's heart when he delivers to another's house a child, the object of his tender care.

Daughter, Children, Pain

Euripides (2007). “The Plays of Euripides”, p.305, Wildside Press LLC

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

Children, Wife, Firsts

"Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

Children, Tantrums, Emotion

Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.

Children, Successful, Men

Orestes, l.542-3 (translated by M L West, 1987).

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