Quotes of Trojan - somelinesforyou

“ I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me — I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ”

- Rebecca West

“ Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts. ”

- Virgil

“ The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred… Who says middle management is useless? ”

- Adam C. Engst

“ DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease… ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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