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I've always liked it about the Greeks that they kept the violence off the stage. — Donna Leon

Italians and Greeks have uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents as far as the eye can see. — Joe Novella

I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts. — Virgil

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. — Oscar Wilde

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

If my body is a Temple, then The Greeks and Romans ransacked it years ago — Josh Stern

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 called this place the omphalos, literally the belly button of the earth, though they never specified whether it was an innie or an outie. — Rick Riordan

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it. — Edith Hamilton

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. — Kat Duff

The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is not. — John Fowles

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

In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle. — Jesmyn Ward

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

Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me. — Homer

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college. — G.H. Hardy

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

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

I cannot get used to the dispassion with which wealthy Greeks contemplate their impoverished compatriots; — Adam Sisman

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. — Eric Hoffer

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. — Winston Churchill

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. — John Dryden

The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes. — Simonides

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. — George Michael

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro. — Mario Monti

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

The Greeks not only face facts. They have no desire to escape from them. — Edith Hamilton

Drink," says the White Logic. "The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence. — Jack London

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 sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. — Madame De Stael

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. — Walter Bagehot

The ancient Greeks who created the magnificent sculptures and structures were the same people who could be utterly cruel and barbaric. — Julia Vickers

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. — Thomas Jefferson

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving. — M.I.A.

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

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks. — David Gerrold

We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts? — Jeb Hensarling

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky

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

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

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks. — Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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 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

Their guess turned out to be right, but one is reminded of E. T. Bell's remark that the great vice of the Greeks was not sodomy but extrapolation. — John D. Clark

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe. — Yanis Varoufakis

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. — Lawrence Summers

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

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. — Sidney Sheldon

Rule No. 41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. — Michael Pollan

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing. — Socrates

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 proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. — Homer

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. — Daniel Woodrell

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. — Johannes Stark

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

The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again. — Ruth Ozeki

East Germans are the Greeks of Germany," I say. "Be careful," she says. — Michael Lewis

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

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. — Edward Bond

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. — Joseph Jacobs

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. — Edward Bond

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare ... neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton

Choose,' she says, reaching out towards him. 'Choose to which of us the apple most belongs... — Emily Hauser

My point," Jason said, "is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place. — Rick Riordan

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. — David Sedaris

The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt. — Conan O'Brien

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife. — Nicolas Bentley

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 saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. — Margaret Fuller

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

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude. — Jorge Luis Borges

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

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks. — Harold Bloom

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston S. Churchill