Greeks Quotes
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We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
— Thucydides
I believe that it was the Greeks who said that great messages were composed of logos and pathos - content and passion.
— Bryan Loritts
This approach shares an assumption, one dating from the ancient Greeks, that human reasoning can be a source of knowledge.
— Peter V. Rabins
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
— Plautus
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
— Edith Hamilton
So live your life that those who speak ill of you will not be believed.
— One Of The Ancient Greeks I'm On A Hunt To Find Which One.
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
— Oscar Wilde
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
— George Lloyd
History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
It has been that way ever since the Greeks - a blind fuck in the mud and then a quick spawn and then death.
— Henry Miller
The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
That's what the ancient Greeks thought life was," I said. "A distraction that ends badly.
— Elliott James
Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.
— Peter Watts
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
— George Michael
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.
— Nicolas Bentley
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
— Winston Churchill
I cannot get used to the dispassion with which wealthy Greeks contemplate their impoverished compatriots;
— Adam Sisman
The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.
— Simonides
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare ... neither knew chocolate.
— Sandra Boynton
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
— Edward Bond
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.
— Margaret Fuller
Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs...
— Emily Hauser
Greeks!" Percy yelled. "Let's, um, fight stuff!
— Rick Riordan
A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
— Carroll Quigley
Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.
— William Kennedy
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.
— Martin Cruz Smith
We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts?
— Jeb Hensarling
For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced
— Henry A. Giroux
There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
— Anne Bradstreet
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
— Jorge Luis Borges
The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
— Sophocles
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
— Mary Ritter Beard
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
— H. P. Blavatsky
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
— Eric Hoffer
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
— Thucydides
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov
I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.
— Julie Klausner
The distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.
— James Henry Breasted
Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
— Michael Pollan
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
— Alistair Cooke
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
— Elie Metchnikoff
It would have been much more fortunate had the Persians become masters of the Greeks, rather than have the Romans of all people assume that role.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceedThe woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. — Homer
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
— Dorothea Brande
The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.
— Radovan Karadzic
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.
— Sidney Sheldon
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
— Johannes Stark
Greeks have a sense about wine and coffee.
— Vanessa Star
Jason's heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men.
— Rick Riordan
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves.
— Melina Mercouri
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts,
— Virgil
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.
— Joseph Jacobs
I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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
There were as many Jews as Greeks in the Roman empire, and a higher proportion of them were literate.
— Paul Johnson
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
— Albert Einstein
I guess the Greeks weren't big fans of online shopping, because they had lots of wars with the Amazons.
— Rick Riordan
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
— John F. Kennedy
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
— Robert Mondavi
Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks.
— Beryl Bender Birch
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
— Willem De Kooning
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
— Themistocles
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
— Neil MacGregor
It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.
— Edith Hamilton
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
— Winston S. Churchill
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
— Helen Clark MacInnes
We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
— Yanis Varoufakis
