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Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to… — Ogden Nash
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. — John Dryden
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. — Walter Bagehot
Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity,… — Rollo May
The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause. — Margaret Fuller
Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall… — Peter Lynch
To me there is no past or future in my art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not… — Pablo Picasso
In the beginning was the myth . God , in his search for self -expression, invested the souls of Hindus , Greeks , and Germans… — Hermann Hesse
I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea. — Julie Klausner
I pissed off Greeks, particularly in my family, for years to come, because I popularized the word "malaka," which hitherto had not been known outside… — John Kapelos
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You… — Marilyn French
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they… — Nigel Farage
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from… — Lillian Hellman
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. — Thomas Jefferson
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of… — Robert Kennedy
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. — Willem de Kooning
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. — John Major
You know, it is said that we Greeks are a fervent and warm blooded breed. Well, let me tell you something - it is true. — Melina Mercouri
I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. — George Michael
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing… — Robert Mondavi
Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro. — Mario Monti
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. — Barack Obama
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found… — Colin Quinn
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical… — Ferdinand de Saussure

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