Famous quotes containing the words century and/or athens:
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
—Aesop (6th century B.C.)
“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)