Famous quotes containing the word greek:
“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)
“The decline of a culture
Mourned by scholars who dream of the ghosts of Greek boys.”
—Stephen Spender (19091995)
“The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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