16 quotes found
“Holy mother!""Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference."-Hephaetus”
“ the fishermans daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.”
“It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.”
“These summer nights are short. Going to bed before midnight is unthinkable and talk, wine, moonlight and the warm air are often in league to defer it one, two or three hours more. It seems only a m...”
“Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.Patricia Briggs.”
“In this way, the Spartans erected a moral barrier between themselves and the helots to justify their harsh treatment of fellow Greeks. For all these reasons, the helots hated the Spartans bitterly.”
“Neleus...The son of Poseidon!A birth that came from the mate of a god and a mortal woman.Not plain at all!So it was, when the gods love, mate as humans with humans!From such a union two children we...”
“Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence.”
“The glory that was Greece.”
“Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!”
“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”
“… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.”
