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Greek
«Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.»
«The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
| Keywords:
confronted, Greek, Greek a, illiterate, illiterate person, manuscript, manuscripts
«You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.»
«Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free; but Christ is all, and in all»
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, cluttered, Dead language, decorative, encroachment, encroachments, Greek, Greek word, Latin, lure, lured, lures, obscurity, phrases, reliable, struggling, vagueness, worn, worn out, writes
«When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.»
«To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
anesthesia, goddess, gods and goddesses, Greek, Greek a, perpetual, young man, young woman
