Wisdom don't always speak in Greek and Latin. [ Proverb ]
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers. [ Disraeli ]
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. [ Bartol ]
As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know bow to praise.
[ Wendell Phillips ]
Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can. [ John Ruskin ]
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. [ Lowell ]
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. [ T. Starr King ]
The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is illfavored. [ Emerson ]
On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day. [ Coleridge ]
Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect. [ Emerson ]
It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Paraphernalia, Trappings or Regalia? We often hear paraphernalia used in the sense of trappings or regalia; as, The Grand Marshal was conspicuous in his gorgeous paraphernalia
The word is derived from the Greek, and is strictly a law term, meaning whatever the wife brings with her at marriage, in addition to her dower, such as her dresses and her jewels. Hence the evident absurdity of the use of paraphernalia in the sentence cited. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]