If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it.
– Dave Barry
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- Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe. – Douglas Adams
- If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near forty. – Chris Rock
- Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. – Dave Barry
- We don’t shoot somebody soon, I’m gonna forget how – Dave Barry
- maybe somebody finally shot the dog. – Dave Barry
- Reading… a vacation for the mind…. – Dave Barry
- In the words of a very famous dead person, ‘A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. – Dave Barry
- You should not confuse your career with your life. – Dave Barry
- There comes a time in a man’s life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately. – Dave Barry
- As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. – Dave Barry
- As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. – Dave Barry
- Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. – Dave Barry
- Falling in love with a woman’s body is lust, with a woman’s mind is sense, with a woman’s heart is virtue, and with a woman’s soul is wisdom. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Bolts of energy swirled in the air and streamed into Dave’s ????. Dave sneezed … No. He farted through his nose. – Fred Barnett
- Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it’s not OK, but you can change it. – Bono
- I believe that a person’s taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know. – Leila Sales
- Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently – Jeanette Winterson
- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. – GK Chesterton
- Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move. – Albert Einstein
- Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. – Mohsin Hamid
- It may be prodigious, but it’s all Greek to me! – Herg
- Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled. – Peggy Noonan
- To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. – Oscar Wilde
- The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul. – Gunther Hauk
- [I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy. – Will Durant
- Amphibians-”the word comes from the Greek meaning -˜double life. – Elizabeth Kolbert
- The word ecology is derived from the Greek oikos, the word for home. – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Let’s stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro’s key problem. With Greece gone, who’s next ? – Alex Morritt
- Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn. – Greek Proverb
- Light in Greek is the same thing as knowledge which is the opposite of ignorance. – Sunday Adelaja
- Light means knowledge in the Greek language it can also be translated as illumination, knowledge, insight, understanding and wisdom – Sunday Adelaja
- The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts. – Lisa Kessler
- A myth, in its original Greek meaning- muthos- is simply that: a story, one which seeks to render life transparent to an intelligible source. – Jules Cashford
- Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue. – Robert Thier
- The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek. – Sudhir Ahluwalia
- He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. – Greek Proverb
- And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on ‘Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt’ had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology. – Sinclair Lewis
- Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me. – Charlotte Bront