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When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of…

— John Arbuthnot

“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.”

— Cato

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

“I now know from voracious reading and tireless research that most of my favorite quotes are just paraphrases from ancient philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle,…

— Jeff Burden

“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”

— Jarod Kintz

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

— James Boswell

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts…

— Mercedes Lackey

Brandon McCaw and King Richard says but it was not the Latin of Cicero or even the Latin of the ordinary Roman citizen. It…

— Brandon McCaw

“I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.”

— phil keaggy

“The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.”

— Sherry Thomas

“Quotes from Ancient Greece are mostly all bollocks”

— Karl Wiggins

“Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor and philosopher, wrote, “Every morning when I leave my house, I say to myself, ‘Today I shall meet an…

— Dorothy Grover Bolton