Greek Quotes

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass.

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.

The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding through the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?

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

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

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

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases"” They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.