Top 17 Quotes About Ancient Athens
#1. If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.
Dale Carnegie
#2. Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available.
M.F. Moonzajer
#3. The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
Sonia Sotomayor
#4. Speak only that which will bring you honor.
Guru Nanak
#5. I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
Taylor Swift
#6. Nor can wage labour exist unless hired by capital.
Anonymous
#8. With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.
Athenagoras Of Athens
#9. Prince,' said Puck's voice, drawing me out of my dark thoughts, back to the present. 'Prince. Oy, ice-boy!
Julie Kagawa
#10. On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.
Jean Stapleton
#11. Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.
Alan Bennett
#12. She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.
Elvis Costello
#13. No perspective, no perception.
New perspective, new perception.
Toba Beta
#14. I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
Shan Sa
#15. Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in The Omniconstant
Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis
#16. An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
Aristophanes
