Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

- Theocritus

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it lasts only for a short time.

- Theocritus

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

- Theocritus

Faults are beauties, when survey'd by love.

- Theocritus

Man will ever stand in need of man.

- Theocritus

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

- Theocritus

Trying will do anything in this world.

- Theocritus

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

- Theocritus

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

- Theocritus