Ancient Quotes

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out.

There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.

Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together.

What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, it does.

You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

I think that painting is a very ancient form of expression.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery and each reflects upon the other.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

Oh, God, puppy dog eyes. From a six-foot-five ancient Viking vampire.

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Amygdalin ('Laetrile')..has been employed medically for many centuries. Ancient herbal pharmacopeias recommended the bitter almond for the treatment for a variety of illnesses.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.

Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over long distances. They were like ancient Slim Jims.

The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

Even in ancient times, people would unite to a beat. Now we have the internet and events worldwide, our frequency can be shared. Everyone can express themselves to the planet.

The fast paced nature of our technologically-driven world seems to create issues that would appear to be foreign to ancient civilization.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

"Angel" means messenger of God. But angels are nondenominational. The word "God" sometimes implies a Judeo-Christian orientation, yet angels are universal and ancient archetypes.

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

June [Hillary] is a very strong influence in my life and particularly now in my ancient years there is no doubt at all: if there's a decision to be made, quite often June is the one who makes it.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

I think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we are, perceivers, luminous perceivers of reality.

Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.