Athens Quotes

82 Athens quotes by 66 unique authors

Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and… — William Shakespeare
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out… — Aeschylus
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies. — William Shakespeare
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done… — Jostein Gaarder
We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athensâ€”like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. Itâ€™s never entirely clear what this is… — David Graeber
Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet… — Harold Urey
Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the… — George Will
Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands… — John F. Kennedy
I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming.… — Vijender Singh
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things… — Diane Paulus
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of… — Brendan Myers
My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of… — Amit Bhatia
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa
If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be… — Jonathan Brown
This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a… — Derek Walcott
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured. — Thucydides
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people… — Christine Lagarde
I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we… — Greg Kinnear
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — W R Inge
The law in Athens is true in Rome — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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