Ancient Quotes

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

The Ancient Mariner seizes the guest at the wedding feast and will not let go until he has told all his story: the prototype of the bore.

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested.

In very ancient times of human evolution upon earth, humanity's revelation in word and sound was not differentiated in song and speech, but they were one.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

Advance our standards, set upon our foes; Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

If an ancient man saw planes two thousand years ago He would've thought they were birds Or angels from another world Or messengers from other planets.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

PYRRHONISM- An ancient philosophy, named for its inventor. It consisted of an absolute disbelief in everything but Pyrrhonism. Its modern professors have added that.

THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science.

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.

My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give back to India her ancient freedom.

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.