#greeks

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. ↗

— John Major

#black #created #ever #greeks #more

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#art #beautiful #believes #days #egyptians

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism. ↗

— Barack Obama

#believe #british #brits #greek #greeks

The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#ancient greeks #course #either #examined #fascinating

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#ancient #ancient greeks #composition #greeks #mind

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. ↗

— Virgil

#even #fear #gifts #greeks #i

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#change #educating #fellow #greeks #important

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

#blood #england #english #fascism #friends

* 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

#history #war #experience

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#clothing #greeks #humor #soul #wilde