Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.

Tell her thisAnd more, —That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys.

Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

You know you are in love when you are willing to share your cash-machine number.

Take me to the pilot of your soul.

She'd even violated the only sensible rule of dieting she'd ever run across, the sage advice of the Muppets Miss Piggy, who recommended never eating anything bigger than your head.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.