Brazen Quote by Joseph Joubert

“My writing tools were my most precious belongings. My best quill pen was made from a raven’s feather . . . I was often…

— Kate Forsyth

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

“If you wish to be a writer; write! Send quote to a friend Epictetus (50-120) Greek philosopher.”

— Epictetus

“If we use the Himalayas as an ink-tablet, the largest ocean as the ink-pot, the branch of the biggest tree of heaven as a…

— Acharya Ramananda

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“We were like children after larks, always on the point of catching the art, which was always getting away from us.… At last we…

— Mark A. Flynn

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it broke out,…

— Thucydides

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Apollo taught her to sing and play the lyre. Athene taught her to spin, Demeter to tend a garden. Aphrodite taught her how to…

— Bernard Evslin

“Maybe even more important than the D.B.P. [Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras], ∞-wise is the protomystic Parmenides of Elea (c.515-? BCE), not only because of…

— David Foster Wallace

Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer…

— James A. McDougall

“Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a…

— Terry Deary