Best Quotes About Greek (Top 17)
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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Milan Kundera
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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.
Alexander the Great
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The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
Thucydides
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First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass.
Jean-Luc Godard
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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.
George Mikes
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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?
Steven Runciman
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Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]
Solon
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
Anne Bradstreet
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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?
Andrew Lang
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
Alistair Cooke
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Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
Eric Johnston
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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.
Ira Gershwin
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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.
Avery Brundage
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I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Brian Lumley
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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.
Harold MacMillan
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller