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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. -- Alcuin
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. -- Alexander the Great
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. -- Robert South
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. -- Edith Hamilton
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster. -- Bill Toomey
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. -- Benjamin Disraeli
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem. -- Tertullian
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. -- John Milton
I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life. -- Paula Radcliffe
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world. -- Socrates
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. -- Bill Toomey
Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose! -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. -- Michael Stipe
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. -- Stephen Gardiner
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. -- Bill Vaughan
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century. -- Robert A. Dahl
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner. -- Edward Everett
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence. -- David Brainerd
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. -- Michael Stipe
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. -- Michael Stipe
I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens. -- Christine Lagarde
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? -- Tertullian
The law in Athens is true in Rome -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts. -- William Shakespeare
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. -- Alexander Pope
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies. -- William Shakespeare
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. -- Shan Sa
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. -- Jostein Gaarder
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. -- Thucydides
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. -- Mark Zupan
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. -- Thucydides
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. -- Aristophanes
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. -- Camille Paglia
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. -- Marian Dragulescu
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". -- Moses Finley
I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization. -- Yanis Varoufakis
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics. -- Carly Patterson
If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty. -- Pericles
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire. -- Henry David Thoreau
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens. -- Barack Obama
I hope it really comes off. It would make my dad really proud." (about the song for the coming 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece) -- George Michael
The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world. -- Cathy Freeman
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are. -- Thucydides
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself. -- Socrates
If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one. -- Alcuin
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record. -- Maurice Greene
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it. -- George Will
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. -- Diane Paulus
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence. -- Eric Weiner
Trees are good for contemplation: Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a peepul tree. -- Colin Tudge
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years. -- Robert K. G. Temple
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not. -- Rita Mae Brown
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. -- Nigel Farage
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics. -- Allyson Felix
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously. -- Corey Smith
The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily. -- Gavin de Becker
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor. -- Jostein Gaarder
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this. -- Gianluca Basile
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. -- Nigel Farage
Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth. -- Harold Urey
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax. -- Christine Lagarde
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. -- Pablo Picasso
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy. -- Socrates
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed. -- Evelyn Waugh
I know from my conversations with people in the administration that every world leader that Obama met in Berlin, in Peru, in Athens was extremely alarmed by Trump's election. That very much includes Angela Merkel. -- David Remnick
Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed by clever demagogues, might capriciously send out military forces in unnecessary and exhausting adventures. -- Thucydides
If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage. -- Jonathan Brown
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language. -- Stephanie Beacham
In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity. -- Louis MacNeice
If I were in severely straitened socio-economic circumstances and had to move to the U.S., I'd probably opt for Athens, GA, or Lawrence, KS. As boho guys usually do, live cheap in the Left Bank of Kansas. -- William Gibson
Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home to die; The wind doth blow in every sky That wafts us to that doleful sea. -- John Addington Symonds
I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me. -- Paula Radcliffe
What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of. -- Kerri Walsh
No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people. -- David Ben-Gurion
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. -- Laure Manaudou
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done to the fool at Athens, who fancied all the ships that came into the harbor were his own. -- Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo. -- Derek Walcott
Strategy was first used in Athens (508 BC) to describe the art of leadership used by the ten generals on the war council. Some argue for the more creative, human side, while others argue for the more analytic side of strategy. -- Max McKeown
If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible. -- Jill Douglas
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life. -- Jostein Gaarder
We're from Athens, Alabama. That's my town. People think it's Muscle Shoals, but they have no idea. It's a quiet, sleepy little town, about 45 minutes from Muscle Shoals. It's really hard to be a band in Athens; there are no venues. -- Brittany Howard
I decided that I was going to go to the Olympics to see if I had made the right decision to retire because I knew that if I'd made the mistake of retiring I would know during and after those Games in Athens. -- Cathy Freeman
The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it. -- Amit Bhatia
The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment can be found in habits of mind cultivated in Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the institutions that grew from them. -- Ibn Warraq
I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse. -- Philip Kerr
I suppose 'Gladiator' could be a Western - if you were writing your review in Athens, that is! To be honest, we didn't really think that way at the time. But there is common ground. And they both have horses - I liked that, obviously. -- Russell Crowe
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. -- Richie Sambora
Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today! -- Robert South
I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens. -- Vijender Singh
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me. -- Alton Brown
If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.' -- Yanis Varoufakis
Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished. -- Michael Maloney
Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store. -- Gary Calamar
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society. -- Brendan Myers
Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me. -- Joanna Lumley
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. -- Paula Radcliffe
If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them. -- Suzanne Collins
I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. -- Greg Kinnear
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. -- Ali Smith

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