Quotes for the Athenians
Submitted by pianoshootis on Fri, 02/03/2006 - 13:07
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- "Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence." -- Lord Byron
- "At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose." -- Alcuin
- "How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens." -- Alexander the Great
- "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
- "I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager." -- Edgar Allan Poe
- "When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again." -- Edith Hamilton
- "I doubt seriously whether a man can think with full wisdom and with deep convictions regarding certain of the basic issues today who has not at least reviewed in his mind the period of the Peloponnesian War and the fall of Athens." -- George Marshall
- "An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise." -- Robert South
- "Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed." -- Evelyn Waugh
- "The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts." -- Shakespeare
Cloned From:
Give me again your empty boon,
Sweet Sleep - the gentle dream
How Theseus 'neath the fickle moon
Upon the Ocean stream
Took me and led me by the hand
To be his Queen in Athens land.
--Nonnos