Greek Quotes - Page 4

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.

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

You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place.

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.

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.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.