Solon/anecdotes

Famous quotes containing the words solon and/or anecdotes:

“He will wish and desire to learn as long as he lives, as Solon says.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs;
They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs;
They told each other anecdotes disparaging their wives;
On several occasions, too, they saved each other’s lives.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)