Country Quote by Hugh MacLennan

“Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks.…

— Roman Payne

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We…

— John Banville

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

— George Papandreou

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

— Anne Bradstreet

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our…

— Friedrich Schiller

While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks…

— Mark Steyn

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.

— Thucydides

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“they had a tradition of greater solidarity. Greek was hostile to Greek; Jew stood by Jew. Wherever a Jew went, he found men of…

— H.G. Wells

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

— Debora Spar

Whatever the Letter, Greeks do it better!

— Anonymous