Fitness Quote by A.J. Jacobs

“There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to…

— E.M. Forster

“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We…

— John Banville

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“Σαν παιδιά, να θυμηθούμε και πάλι, πώς είναι να κουβαλάμε, μια Ανατολή στις πλάτες μας! As children, remembering again how to carry a sunrise on our backs!”

— Georgia Kakalopoulou

The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine…

— J. B. Jackson

“Η πιο όμορφη σπατάλη, είναι να αγαπάς... Τρυπάς την τσέπη της καρδιάς σου και δε φοβάσαι για το απόθεμα. Όση περισσότερη χάνεις, τόσο πολλαπλασιάζεται…

— Georgia Kakalopoulou

The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals…

— Barry S. Strauss

“I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais—the kind Greek husbands are slain…

— Olivia Sudjic

Whatever the Letter, Greeks do it better!

— Anonymous

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at…

— Henry David Thoreau