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The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

Part of why I love Greek food so much is that it is simple, but it's unpretentious. It's authentic.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.

She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.

What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

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

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Darian is a Greek name, and my grandson is definitely going to be a Greek God, just like his grandfather.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

He who enjoys a good neighbor, said the Greeks, has a precious possession. Same goes for neighbour's wife.

Frequently my life has been likened to a Greek tragedy, and the actress in me cannot deny that comparison.

In Greek, we do not use just one word for love. We have many words that are specific to each type of love.

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

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