Greek
Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
A native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the language of Greece.
A swindler; a knave; a cheat.
Something unintelligible; as, it was all Greek to me.
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Greek Quotations
For my part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson
I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Barack Obama
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
Karl Marx
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J. K. Rowling
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
Greek Translations
Greek in Afrikaans is Grieks, Griek
Greek in Dutch is Grieks
Greek in Finnish is kreikkalainen
greek in German is Grieche, griechisch
Greek in Italian is Greco
Greek in Portuguese is Grego
Greek in Spanish is griego, grieco
Greek in Swedish is grekisk, grek
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