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 ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold. — Marian Dragulescu Copy Share Image
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I came from the Sticks, literally. I grew up in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, just outside Athens, Georgia. — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to… — Socrates Copy Share Image
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
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… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go… — Ellie Simmonds Copy Share Image
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
Athens is one of those cities that is very livable. And it's inexpensive. You can get by. And that makes for creativity.… — Cindy Wilson Copy Share Image
“Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money.… — Stephanie Beacham Copy Share Image
“Do people even look at one another?" "Not really. Everything that matters is on your screen. There's an agenda that rearranges itself.… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Everything in Athens is probably a good example. Any time when there really isn't a need for these facilities in these cities,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
The Jews believed Jerusalem to be the centre. I have seen a kratometric chart designed to show that the city of Philadelphia… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Andrians were the first of the islanders to refuse Themistocles' demand for money. He had put it to them that they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy… — Christopher Hitchens 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
