Top 817 Quotes & Sayings by Greek Authors - Page 13

The test of any man lies in action.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

The only thing I could do was play music, because I'd studied classical guitar, trumpet and piano at the American School in Alexandria. So I started out with two other boys in little clubs in Athens. I became a singer by default when our lead vocalist was late one night. Someone had to sing.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Every summer my father gave us this incredible vacation, in the Philippines, Thailand, Europe - wherever.

The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it's what Obama does.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else. I'm a free man.

I'm gonna have some nights when it's not gonna come. But if you keep playing natural, it's just gonna come. I'm gonna keep getting better, keep getting better, and one day, everything's gonna pay off.

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

There has been a lot of movement in my family, but in a way, it has been great. It has made me adaptable. I can plonk myself anywhere.

Starting in Greece, you couldn't really say, 'I'm going to become a film-maker.' A 15-year-old boy in Greece in the '80s and '90s? There was nothing like that happening.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this job because my father did. I also hope I will be more successful than my father.

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

Learn to obey before you command.

God always strives together with those who strive.

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

The best of healers is good cheer.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties, many countries, many governments, many electorates participate and we could have events which, rationally, are not controllable.

Bitcoin offers one service: securely time-stamped, scripted transactions. Everything else is built on the edge-devices as an application. Bitcoin allows any application to be developed independently, without permission, on the edge of the network.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

Beans have a soul.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Everybody loves me.

A man's character is his fate.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

Without labor nothing prospers.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.

I wanted so much to come to America and have America hear my music.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.