Famous quotes containing the word greek:
“Here Greek and Roman find themselves
Alive along these crowded shelves;
And Shakespeare treads again his stage,
And Chaucer paints anew his age.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (18071892)
“In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“It is an elegant refinement that God learned Greek when he wanted to become a writerand that he did not learn it better.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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