“For my part, it was Greek to me.”
William Shakespeare
“The ancient oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.”
Socrates
“I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) / That English is what you speak!”
Lewis Carroll
“Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you”
Plutarch
“Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.”
Ezra Pound
“It was Greek to me.”
“I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs”
Robertson Davies
