57 Quotes by Greek Proverb

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