Greek Quotes

“Never argue Greek legends with a Greek...”

— Kate Walker

He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

— Sparky Anderson

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

— Margaret Atwood

The Greek people are entrepreneurial.

— Barack Obama

I think Greek is a really tough language to learn.

— Maria Sakkari

I have friends who read my books in Greek.

— Brian Lumley

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

— Ben Jonson

Tilefona se perno ma den mou milas..

— Anonymous

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

— Selwyn Hughes

My Greekness was bound to come out of one orifice or another because I am Greek.

— Jamie Demetriou

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

— Michel de Montaigne

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 space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

— Marshall McLuhan

Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

— Oliver Stone

“Maybe he’d been speaking Greek, a word of which he knew fucking none, because what in the Zeus-fuck did she just say…

— V. Theia

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil…

— Immanuel Kant

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an…

— Carroll Quigley

If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted…

— Neville Cardus

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but…

— Tryon Edwards

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions…

— Melina Mercouri

In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.

— Barack Obama

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly…

— Hayley Atwell

I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the…

— Barack Obama

'Greek' is basically a show about sororities and fraternities. It follows Casey Cartwright, played by me, her younger brother, and all the…

— Spencer Grammer

Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving…

— Havelock Ellis

In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained…

— Isaac Newton

We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic…

— John Shelby Spong

Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything,…

— Michal Rovner

He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so…

— Diodorus Siculus

At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every…

— W. H. Auden

[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar…

— Peter Lynch

“If you look up 'atheism' in the dictionary, you will probably find it defined as the belief that there is no God.…

— Michael Martin

“If the interest of a scientific expositor ought to be measured by the importance of the subject, I shall be applauded for…

— Etienne-Jules Marey

He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were…

— Karen Armstrong

Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just…

— Jon Gordon

I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,…

— Lord Chesterfield