All Quotes ••• "to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time." - Ithaca, T.S. Elliot "we return to Greece in order to rediscover the archetypes of our mind and of our culture." - James Hillman "Greece and her foundations are built below the tide of War," based on the crystalline sea Hellas, by Percy Bysshe Shelly "Her citizens, imperial spirits, rule the present from the past." - Hellas - Percy Bysshe Shelly "Our Hellenic background, has given us the courage and strength to understand and to absorb our American environment in a perfect union ..." - Kimon Doukas, PSP - 1966 Ahepa Convention "Grace to you and Peace from He-who-is and He-who-was and He-who-is to come." - St. John, 1st Chapter of the Last Book of Revelations "Know Thyself" - Socrates "Must we but weep o’er days more blest? Must we but blush? --Our fathers bled." - Don Juan, 1821 - Lord Byron "Earth! render back from out thy breast a remnant of our Spartan dead!" - Don Juan, 1821 - Lord Byron "Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae." - Don Juan, 1821 - Lord Byron "We are all Greeks." - Percy Bysshe Shelly "Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their roots in Greece." - Percy Bysshe Shelly "Greek civilization is alive; it moves in every breath of mind that we..." - Will Durant "The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments..." - President James Monroe "This people, a people of intelligence, ingenuity, refinement, spirit and enterprise..." - Hon. Danel Webster "The sympathies which the people and Government of the US have so warmly indulged with the cause of Greece..." - President John Quincy Adams "For Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation." - Pericles "Go tell the Spartans, thou who passest by, that here obedient to their laws we lie." - Simonides - Epitaph at Thermopylae "Were'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground." - Lord Byron "Nothing in Excess." - Aristotle "A thousand faces has this Greek world ... always recognizable." - Henry Miller - Collosus of Marrusi "To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit..." - Edith Hamilton "The modern Greek ... when he begins to sing ... breaks the crust of Greek logic..." - Nikos Kazantzakis "Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious." - W.H. Auden "The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy." - Bertrand Russell "This is true Liberty when free born men having to advise the public may speak free." - Euripides "I hope nothing, I fear nothing, I am free." - Nikos Kazantzakis "I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen..." - Nikos Kazantzakis "I stood at Agamemnon's tomb. From that day forth my life was dedicated to the recovery of the divinity of man." - Henry Miller "The Greek Earth opens before me like the Book of Revelations." - Henry Miller "The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being." - Henry Miller "I felt this was my duty ... to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my loins and transform it ... into light." - Nikos Kazantzakis "(the Melteme) comes up every morning ... blows stronger as the day goes on, until at sunset it dies down and is still, waiting like us for morning." - Elia Kazan "It was more than a ... figure, it represented every Anatolian Greek waiting to be redeemed." - Elia Kazan "Give me a firm place to stand and I will move the whole earth." - Archimedes "Xanthus, why do you prophesy my death? There’s no need for that." - Homer "Never yet have I seen nor shall see again such men as these were..." - Homer "These were the strongest generation of earth-born mortals..." - Homer "In my time I have dealt with better men than you, and never once did they disregard me." - Homer "Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin." - Sir Henry Maine "Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece." - Shelley "You who bore your child. It was for Greece you bore her, not yourself." - Euripides Humor Quotes "Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'" - Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter) "I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'" - Eleanor Roosevelt "Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement." - Mark Twain "The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible." - George Burns "Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year." - Victor Borge "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." - Groucho Marx "My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe." - Jimmy Durante "I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back." - Zsa Zsa Gabor "Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat." - Alex Levine "My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying." - Rodney Dangerfield "Money can't buy you happiness... but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery." - Spike Milligan "I am opposed to millionaires... but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." - Mark Twain "Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was Shut Up." - Joe Namath "I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap." - Bob Hope "I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it." - W.C. Fields "We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress." - Will Rogers "Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you." - Winston Churchill "Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty... but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out." - Phyllis Diller "By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere." - Billy Crystal

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