Quotes Tagged With :greeks

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all....

It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to....

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid....

Louis thought he would be all for a back-to-the-basics drive in education: a teacher, an olive tree,....

He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. “Well, not really,”....

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it....

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it.....

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from....