84 Quotations with Greek.
- 1. Alice May Brock: Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cre ...
- 2. W. Somerset Maugham: When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began ...
- 3. Greek: Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance -- ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: GORGON, n.
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- 7. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly call ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: W (double U) has, of all the letters in our alphabet, the only cumbrous name, th ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted charact ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the atta ...
- 18. John R. Searle: Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to us ...
- 19. Gregory Benford - Timescape: There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstei ...
- 20. Socrates: I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Greek Quotes by Power Quotations
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