Hydra Quotes

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

Grief has been compared to a hydra; for every one that dies, two are born.

George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins. "You're kidding," I said. "Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. "The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent."

Simply put, international terrorism made international cooperation mandatory rather than elective. Collective security has become the only real security against the hydra-headed monster of international terror.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.