Top 38 Greek War Sayings

#1. That is - your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

Madeline Miller

Greek War Sayings #41074
#2. It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized.

Ronald Reagan

Greek War Sayings #51701
#3. Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?

Alexander Pope

Greek War Sayings #115717
#4. Gods are cold. War, killing, and stabbing each other in the back is really what we do best.

Kendare Blake

Greek War Sayings #161949
#5. When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should know that the Turks did not wait for the fire to burn itself out, but rushed upon the Templars among the scorching flames.

Jean De Joinville

Greek War Sayings #166326
#6. Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

Nick Kroll

Greek War Sayings #268769
#7. The Greek Civil War led to three decades of illegality for the Left, which had to operate under front organisations. The Cold War entrenched in power - backed by the US and Britain - a monarchist, authoritarian right for whom political violence was customary.

Anonymous

Greek War Sayings #296546
#8. I thought of Pericles' speech to the families of the Athenian war dead, in which he said, What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Eric Greitens

Greek War Sayings #378978
#9. Life is like a voyage with a beginning and an end. It's what happens between the two that counts." Captain Hank Bracker

Hank Bracker

Greek War Sayings #424794
#10. Do not hold on to people. Hold on to good memories.

Joan Ambu

Greek War Sayings #460349
#11. This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After, a nightmare.

Demitria Lunetta

Greek War Sayings #517855
#12. The war of ideas is a Greek invention. It is one of the most important inventions ever made. Indeed, the possibility of fighting with with words and ideas instead of fighting with swords is the very basis of our civilization, and especially of all its legal and parliamentary institutions.

Karl Popper

Greek War Sayings #548506
#13. Are the legends true?" asked Cadmus. "Of course they are," replied Pan. "We live in an age of legends.

Sulari Gentill

Greek War Sayings #609931
#14. Passion makes the will lord of the reason.

William Shakespeare

Greek War Sayings #616495
#15. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

Greek War Sayings #661846
#16. * Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

Pindar

Greek War Sayings #719864
#17. In war, the first casualty is truth.

Aeschylus

Greek War Sayings #780219
#18. I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.

Alice Oswald

Greek War Sayings #780736
#19. England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots.

Melina Mercouri

Greek War Sayings #826074
#20. The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

Hilda Doolittle

Greek War Sayings #826107
#21. Hero," he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father's. "Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks and the Trojans. We are of the Herdsmen.

Sulari Gentill

Greek War Sayings #940539
#22. Recognizing and accepting both the responsibilities and the opportunities leadership offers you is a significant step in your development as a leader.

Kevin Eikenberry

Greek War Sayings #979559
#23. There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifery.

Bernard De Mandeville

Greek War Sayings #1001505
#24. Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

Keith Henson

Greek War Sayings #1005764
#25. Become detached from your ego, become detached from your possessions. Become simply detached from every possible source of attachment.

Rajneesh

Greek War Sayings #1010172
#26. Ty," Zane yelled, "don't shoot the tiger!"
"He started it." Ty continued to stare at the tiger, and the tiger at him.

Abigail Roux

Greek War Sayings #1018845
#27. I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

Marianne Williamson

Greek War Sayings #1019910
#28. Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!
Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Aristophanes

Greek War Sayings #1032342
#29. I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

Adoniram Judson

Greek War Sayings #1090188
#30. It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.

Sulari Gentill

Greek War Sayings #1104900
#31. I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.

Stephen Fry

Greek War Sayings #1159768
#32. This story of benign judicial neglect of Nazis and collaborators forms a striking contrast with the systematic repression of the Greek Left, which lasted for over two decades.

Mark Mazower

Greek War Sayings #1226057
#33. I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

Lesley Ann Warren

Greek War Sayings #1266180
#34. I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff.

Tyson Chandler

Greek War Sayings #1402204
#35. This brutal man is my home. His hell is my heaven. I'm his Ivory, and he's my darkest note.

Pam Godwin

Greek War Sayings #1413059
#36. My body felt alive.
I need more.
"Valkyrie," Fen growled, eyes locked on my mouth. "Put your lips back on mine, and I will give you what you crave.

Amanda Carlson

Greek War Sayings #1718212
#37. America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.

Arthur Goldberg

Greek War Sayings #1787394
#38. Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.

Immanuel Kant

Greek War Sayings #1790339

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