Quotes by Greek Praise me not too much, Homer blame too-much greek If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek. Ira Gershwin guy greek latin Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers. Isaac D'Israeli quiver greek latin The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. Isabelle Huppert theatre greek character The Muse gave the Greeks genius and the art of the well-turned phrase. Horace genius greek art The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise Isadora Duncan greek religious art What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh." Isaac Newton greek latin years The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify. J. B. Bury greek kings people The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment. J. B. Jackson cycling violence greek In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast. Isaac Newton rome greek long One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. J. K. Rowling greek reality people If my luck held, it wouldn't be a handsome Greek demigod looking for the love of his life or at least his love of a couple of hours. Ilona Andrews couple luck greek You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. Jackie Kennedy lunch greek firsts There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”. Jacque Fresco polish problem greek The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure. Henry David Thoreau ornaments greek beauty In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology. Henry David Thoreau greek history hands The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages. Henry David Thoreau greek hero morning Lately, I've discovered the Hellenistic bronzes. I'd never really thought about them much, but then there was this marvelous exhibition - many of them Roman, some of them Greek, all kinds of wonderful standing figures or heads or horses. It all suddenly became a passion of mine. I finally got to see that exhibition, which led to the idea of bringing up the statue in the film. James Ivory horse passion greek The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it. Henry David Thoreau tradition appreciate greek It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. James Russell Lowell march army greek «89101112131415161718»
