Greek Verse Quotes

#1. If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Karl Kraus

#2. Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in

Sappho

#3. I get to be the mayor of the capital city of the most polluting state of the most polluting country on the planet ... I see truly a non-carbon economy. It's cleaner. It's healthier. We're about out of alternatives, so it's going to be easier and more cost effective to start to do the right thing.

Will Wynn

#4. but if you love us
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one

Sappho

#5. gathering flowers so very delicate a girl

Sappho

#6. neither for me honey nor the honey bee

Sappho

#7. He was a living example of the truth that a man may be large-minded and yet strong; that he may hate error, yet love the erring - stand like a rock against heresy, yet be full of compassion for heretics.

F.A. Forbes

#8. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

Winston Churchill

#9. ]
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things

yes many and beautiful things
]
]
]

Sappho

#10. Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.

Richard J. Needham

#11. Your working assumption, when you meet a homophobe, should be that they are gay.

Johann Hari

#12. I definitely don't think I'm going to have a mid-life crisis.

Daniel Wu