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I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora. — George Papandreou

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. — Joseph Sobran

He is the richest who is content with the least. — Socrates

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek. — Heinrich Schliemann

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. — Bo Bennett

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up. — Ruth Negga

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn

Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. — Peggy Noonan

Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters. — Edith Hamilton

The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend. — Oscar Wilde

If God wrote the New Testament, he knew surprisingly little Greek. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Brendan Fraser

When an Italian marries a Greek, you get the union of two lots of people who believe themselves to be the creators of modern civilization — Joe Novella

Call no man happy until he is dead. — Solon

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek. — E. V. Lucas

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. — Arsenio Hall

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event. — Terence McKenna

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. — Simonides

In all the good Greek of Plato
I lack my roastbeef and potato.

A better man was Aristotle,
Pulling steady on the bottle. — John Crowe Ransom

Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. — Lydia Leonard

Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually. — Rick Riordan

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. — Oscar Wilde

What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of the dramatic spectacle. — Claude Calame

I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I. — Isabel Lucas

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. — Penelope Lively

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. — Rebecca Goldstein

That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? — Arthur Miller

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. — W. H. Auden

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. — Euripides

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. — Homer

A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there's nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope. — Ian Caldwell

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault. — Werner Herzog

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis. — David Blunkett

It's one of my inventions-a shampoo," Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that. — Joan Holub

I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! — Lewis Carroll

If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like — Zeno Of Citium

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. — Dorothea Brande

Greek loom weight showing an owl spinning wool. The — Elizabeth Wayland Barber

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

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing. — Aeschylus

The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure. — Henry David Thoreau

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek. — Rita Wilson

Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was — Will Durant

When doctors take the Hippocratic Oath, they swear an oath to the Greek god Apollo — Adam Anderson

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author
and that he did not learn it better. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I have friends who read my books in Greek. — Brian Lumley

This coming from the god who zinged Guinevere and Lancelot while King Arthur was away slaying dragons. — Tai

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. — George Papandreou

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

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. — Jane Garmey

Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage. — James Carroll

Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words. — Cassandra Clare

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. — John F. Kennedy

It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance. — Sulari Gentill

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. — Alice Oswald

To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne — Maryrose Wood

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

The Egyptian word Pir-em-us meant to them something of great vertical height. From this the Greek form Pyramis, or the plural Pyramides was formed. — H. Spencer Lewis

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller

In childbirth grief begins. — Euripides

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers ... — Isaac D'Israeli

That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved. — Madeline Miller

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus. — Yelle Hughes

neither for me honey nor the honey bee — Sappho

I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] — Augusten Burroughs

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) — Horace

I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks. — Taylor Schilling

Mega biblion, mega kakon (Big book, big evil) — Callimachus

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, — Virgil

Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear. — Nely Cab

A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada. — Rick Riordan

She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine. — Anonymous

Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga — Eva Pohler

Hi, this is Ganymede, cup-bearer to Zeus, and when I'm out buying wine for the Lord of the Skies, I always buckle up! — Rick Riordan

The original ancient Greek meaning of the word planet was simply wanderer, — Mike Brown

In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one. — Peter Straub

The English word "coral" also comes from Greek, meaning "what becomes hard in the hand," "the maiden or nymph of the sea," or "the heart of the sea. — Eric H. Borneman

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken — Beverley Cross

which we call men [Greek: euyvomoves], or say they have — Aristotle.

Medea and the sacred wolf, J. Malachi thought. Somebody help me, I'm going to rehab in a Greek myth. — Eve Tushnet

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. — Neil Gaiman

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton

I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen. — Anne Lamott

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre. — Terry A. O'Neal

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time. — Lianne La Havas

We were friends before." Sort of. We never tried to kill each other. — Amanda Bouchet

The Greek word for "rooster" is built from combined parts that mean "getter out of bed". — J.C. McKeown

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins? — Herman Melville

It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. — Rick Riordan

Keep eating me up with those eyes, little Goddess, and I'll be so deep inside that hot little pussy you won't remember what you came here for. — Setta Jay

The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace

For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards. — John Mole

I sort of fell."
"Percy! Six hundred and thirty feet? — Rick Riordan

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden

The Greek poets had praised virtue as taking several specific forms: wisdom; courage; moderation; justice; and piety. — Melissa Lane

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan