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Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail? -- George Chakiris
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. -- Virgil
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. -- Willem de Kooning
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. -- Thucydides
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
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. -- Barack Obama
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true. -- Melina Mercouri
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
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. -- Robert Kennedy
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. -- Angela Carter
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. -- Stella Adler
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
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
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. -- Jan Peter Balkenende
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. -- Marilyn French
To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.' -- Muhammad Ali
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. -- Emil Nolde
We Greeks want change. We know there are problems in our system. We have great potential but we need to manage our country well. Now that hasn't been done over the last decades. And that is, of course, what we are paying for. -- George Papandreou
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with. -- Martin McDonagh
There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world, just like I did with the Greeks and 'Percy Jackson.' I'll give the books an urban setting and have young people interacting with the Norse gods. -- Rick Riordan
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama. -- Lillian Hellman
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, -- Virgil
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge. -- Plautus
I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea. -- Julie Klausner
The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks -- Edward Bond
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 said very, very extreme things in their tragedies. -- Edward Bond
The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks. -- Radovan Karadzic
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. -- Eric Hoffer
Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks. -- Beryl Bender Birch
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. -- Jack Nicholson
If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now. -- Gerald Sinstadt
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. -- George Lloyd
I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. -- Henry David Thoreau
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. -- Stella Adler
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. -- John Major
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying. -- Theocritus
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. -- Horace
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. -- Sandra Boynton
The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. -- David Sedaris
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. -- Dorothea Brande
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What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks? -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. -- Michael Pollan
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. -- John Dryden
There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. -- Andrew Wiles
To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. -- Sidney Sheldon
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. -- Alistair Cooke
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life. -- Mason Cooley
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks -- Oscar Wilde
The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes. -- Simonides
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. -- Winston Churchill
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time. -- Daniel Woodrell
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro. -- Mario Monti
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it. -- Edith Hamilton
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories. -- Neil MacGregor
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. -- Theodore Parker
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. -- John F. Kennedy
Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving. -- M.I.A.
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. -- William Shakespeare
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem. -- Elie Metchnikoff
Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me. -- Homer
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks -- H. P. Blavatsky
Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more. -- Mary Stewart
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We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. -- Simone Weil
Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. -- Melina Mercouri
He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife. -- Nicolas Bentley
The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks. -- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you. -- Themistocles
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. -- George Michael
The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear. -- Sophocles
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. -- Margaret Fuller
Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed. -- Homer
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. -- Madame de Stael
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. -- Johannes Stark
We should not be borrowing money from the Chinese to bail out the Greeks. What's coming next? Intergalactic bailouts? -- Jeb Hensarling
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. -- Winston Churchill
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. -- Mary Ritter Beard
The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. -- Joseph Jacobs
The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence. -- Elie Metchnikoff
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks -- Miriam
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. -- Evangelos Venizelos
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being. -- Edward Bond
The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy. -- Hilda Doolittle
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. -- Lawrence Summers
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods. -- Miguel Serrano
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. -- Winston Churchill
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. -- Stephen Gardiner
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. -- Oscar Wilde
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We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing -- Thucydides
By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep. -- Kat Duff
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science. -- Albert Einstein
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! -- Amber Valletta
Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! -- Amber Valletta
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions. -- John Catsimatidis
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. -- Bill Vaughan
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. -- Bill Vaughan
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
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure. -- Ken Goldberg
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
In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Who lent the Greeks the most money? It was German banks, and for a long time, they were profiting from it quite nicely. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though. -- Oliver Stone
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience. -- Rollo May
If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you. -- Mary Fairfax
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have felt that there was a close relationship between a strong vital mind and physical fitness. -- John F. Kennedy
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
Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle. -- Troy Polamalu
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
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.' -- John Henrik Clarke
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
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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