Greek Quotes

Greek Quote of the day

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

Times change, and we change with them.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.

There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games.

What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.

He is the richest who is content with the least.

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom.

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

For me, having greek yogurt and some granola is the perfect start-up breakfast because it has many benefits. Its filling, healthy and gives me energy to start my day.

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

Time, which sees all things, has found you out.

I want my house open to sun and wind and the voice of the sea, like a Greek temple, and light, light, light everywhere!

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.

There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."

Call no man happy until he is dead.

A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.