Ancient Quotes
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.
Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.
After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.
Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.
That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.
There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.
Ye lover of the picturesque, if ye wish to drown your grief, take my advice and visit the ancient town of Crieff.
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
All your life you think 60 is ancient, and all of a sudden you find you're 60 and you don't really feel that different. I feel stronger and more engaged. This is the best time of my life.
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.
Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.
The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.
We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people they finally dropped it from judo.
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.