Athens Quotes

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.

The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better one.

The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.