Classical Greek Sayings

#1. That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?

Arthur Miller

#2. For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Ismail Kadare

#3. Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

Theodore White

#4. In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.

Peter Straub

#5. Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made ...

Philip Roth

#6. Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.

Tom Stoppard

#7. If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach 'Appropriate Behavior in Classical Greek Drama,' a course that would be over before it began.

Philip Roth

#8. You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.

John Howard Lawson

#9. Among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. Every age, and especially our own, stands in need of a Diogenes; but the difficulty is in finding men who have the courage to be one, and men who have the patience to endure one.

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

#11. Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

Paul Ormerod

#12. Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

Rita Mae Brown

#13. Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

Josh Tickell

#14. I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Sameron adion aso
I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Theocritus

#16. Better to be a one trick pony...than all-purpose glue.

Matthew Quinn Martin

#17. We are a species born from the planet. If the machines truly want to protect the Earth type planets they must learn to take care of us too.- Sun Wukong

Carolina Cody Aldaz

#18. Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) was the last major Greek philosopher of the classical era to make significant original contributions to the study of language, developing a socio-anthropological theory of the origin of language.

Richard E. McDorman

#19. 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

#20. I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.

Sarah Monette

#21. I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

Agnes Martin

#22. A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it.

George Eliot

#23. I see clearly that I have achieved practically nothing.

Leonard Woolf

#24. Classical mythology is a catalogue of indescribable cruelty: [ ... ] It is a world dominated by evil, where even the most beautiful beings carry out atrocities.

Umberto Eco

#25. Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

Wendell Phillips

#26. Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

Allan Bloom

#27. One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.

Sunidhi Chauhan