Famous quotes containing the words greek proverb and/or greek:
“You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.”
—Greek proverb</i>.
“The student may read Homer or Æschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that he in some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)