Greek Quotes

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

You know, I found out recently that the word "heretic" comes from the Greek word "airetikós", meaning "able to choose" - which pretty much says it all, don't you think?

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care.

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Greek philosophy departs from the assumption that we can understand the world autonomously using our rational faculties. Islam is not saying this.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton