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Enthusiasm is a wonderful thing. In South America they throw flowers to you. In Greece Greeks throw themselves. — Melina Mercouri
The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks. — Johann Joachim Winckelmann
A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and… — Unknown Author
The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly… — Thomas Szasz
I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become… — Muhammad Asad
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream… — Angela Carter
Regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that… — Jeff Daniels
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over… — LeRoy Neiman
The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks. — Radovan Karadzic
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not… — Isaac Asimov
This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all… — Brewster Kahle
When the Greeks said, Whom the gods love die young, they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young… — Eric Hoffer
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. — Eric Hoffer
The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another… — Nicole Kidman
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks. — Winston Churchill
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when… — Christopher Hitchens
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks — Miriam
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their… — Thomas Bulfinch
The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, "Thus far and no farther. We… — Edith Hamilton
SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body… — Ambrose Bierce
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless,… — Simon Sebag-Montefiore
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks — Oscar Wilde
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge. — Plautus
The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. — Horace
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the… — Emil Nolde

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