Greek Quotes

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

Reverend Samuel H. Weed, at my request selected two Greek words, 'cheir' and 'praktikos', meaning when combined, 'done by hand.' From which I coined the word, 'CHIROPRACTIC.'

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

What good is all the painstaking work on copy if the headline isn't right? If the headline doesn't stop people, the copy might as well be written in Greek.

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Come back with your shield - or on it

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture.

The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why I am launching a cross-border movement for more democracy.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions

The word "freewill" (as also "self-determining power" [autexousiou] used by the Greek Fathers) does not occur in Scripture ... I Cor 7:37 does not mean freedom of the will.

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.