How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. — Robert South Copy Share Image
I am afraid that, like Timon of Athens, I just cannot let go of my friendships. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal… — Carly Patterson Copy Share Image
I like living in a smaller place, but I like being in big cities, too, like Athens. — Giannis Antetokounmpo Copy Share Image
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens. — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden… — Gianluca Basile Copy Share Image
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The disabusing a man strongly possessed with an opinion of his own worth is the very same ill office that was done… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have… — Laure Manaudou Copy Share Image
The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing… — Amit Bhatia Copy Share Image
I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In every civilization, life grows easier. Men grow lazier in consequence. We have a picture of what happened to the individual Greek.… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I am honored to be to be part of the biggest sports event in the world. The fact that the Games are… — Tiesto Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Menestheus, the son of Peteus, grandson of Orneus, and the great-grandson to Erechtheus, the first man that is recorded to have affected… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Across the distance, the Acropolis museum cradled within its protective walls its legendary treasures, lulling them to a peaceful sleep under the… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
“There were nights for instance, especially in August, where the view of the full moon from the top of the Acropolis hill… — Effrosyni Moschoudi Copy Share Image
“I want to see the Parthenon by moonlight.' I had my way. They floodlight it now, to great advantage I am told,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the… — Betty Wason Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
