29 Quotations with Greeks.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: GORGON, n.
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- 3. Ambrose Bierce: INFERIAE,n. [Latin] Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for propitation of t ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced away back bey ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of ...
- 7. Ambrose Bierce: SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly call ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted charact ...
- 10. John R. Searle: Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to us ...
- 11. Virgil: Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts.
- 12. Percy Bysshe Shelley: We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their ...
- 13. Eric Hoffer: The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.
- 14. Thomas Jefferson: Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, ...
- 15. Edith Hamilton: It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never ...
- 16. John F. Kennedy: As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this gr ...
- 17. Helen Keller: I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculptur ...
- 18. Willem de Kooning: Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
- 19. Henry David Thoreau: That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, ...
- 20. Themistocles: The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me ...
Greeks Quotes by Power Quotations
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