Greek proverb Quotations

Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad

My first wedding makes me proud in front of people.

Poor in my youth, and in life's later scenes - Rich to no end, I curse my natal hour, Who naught enjoyed while young, denied the means; And naught when old enjoyed, denied the power

If Alexander wishes to be a god, let him set up as a god

For mortals vanished from the day's sweet light I shed no tear; rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death's fear

If it were not for hope, the heart would break

He who is not satisfied with a little is not satisfied with allot.

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Passing from mouth to mouth it was learned by a thousand, and by the time it came to be heard by the king he learned of how a cow laid an egg!

It is better to be the best of a low family than the worst of a noble one

Many a pupil has gained more wealth than his master

When at a loss how to go on, in speaking, cough

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, He has no experience with it

You cannot reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears.

The rabbits' eye differs from that of the owl.

Beneath this stone I lie, the famous woman who loosed her zone to one man only

A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones

I send thee myrrh, not that thou mayest be by it perfumed, but it perfumed by thee

The rose's prime lasts one brief hour of morn, That past, I find no rose - only a thorn

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

O Strangers! By Anacreon's tomb who pass, Shed o'er it wine, in life he lov'd his glass

An open enemy is better than a false friend

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind

Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar

Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have

No need to teach an eagle to fly

A person's character is revealed by their speech

A person can be as sweet as honey or as heavy as steel.

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small

If you do not have brains you have legs.

Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see

Before you can score, you must have a goal

Holy must be the man who treads - the incensed shrine within: and holy is that man alone - whose soul is free from sin

You will break the bow if you keep it always bent

The fox is one hundred years old its' child is one hundred and ten.

The liar and the thief rejoice in their first year only.