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Latin And Greek Quotes & Sayings

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

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. — Alphonse Karr

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite. — Jim Foglesong

Other demigods could understand Latin and Greek. Leo could speak Creak and Squeak. — Rick Riordan

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. — Juvenal

They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian. — Dorothy Dunnett

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

If you can choose a better thought, you can choose a better experience of life. — Francine Huss

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

I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat. — Winston S. Churchill

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear. — Michel De Montaigne

Let your doubts & fears melt away, as you fulfill your life's destiny & goals. — Eleesha

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories. — Maynard James Keenan

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days? — Larry Wall

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. — Quintus Ennius

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet. — Winston Churchill

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. — Virginia Woolf

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

If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain. — Don DeLillo

I have remembered things you said long before I ever met you. — B.R. Sanders

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. — C.P. Scott

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek. — Ben Jonson

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

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