Ancient Quotes · Page 10

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

— Voltaire

Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met…

— Fei Fei Sun

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

— Joanne Harris

I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

— Caroline Lawrence

I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War.

— Paul Virilio

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

— Henry Fuseli

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient…

— Will Durant

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created…

— Judy Chicago

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

— James Russell Lowell

It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily…

— Stephen Beaumont

Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!”…

— Rick Riordan

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient…

— Camille Paglia

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find…

— Henry Norris Russell

The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands…

— Rick Riordan

I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege…

— John Green

Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of…

— Rick Doblin

She had sacrificed her childhood to save her brothers; she loved her family above all else, and her spirits yearned to return…

— Juliet Marillier

I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like…

— Breece D'J Pancake

We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of…

— Jenova Chen

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back…

— Isabel Allende

At least that's what his note said, along with a scathing reminder that dishes didn't wash themselves and the fungus in the…

— Rob Thurman

The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine…

— Laozi

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

— Maya Tiwari

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

— James Garner

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

— Carl Sandburg

“Mr. Teifert’s practically ancient – at least forty, I’d say – and so not sexy or cute or Australian.”

— Mari Mancusi

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

— David A. Bednar

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

— Anonymous

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

— James Boswell

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

— E. O. Wilson

An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

— Fred Brooks

“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.”

— S.E. Harmon

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New…

— F. F. Bruce

Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.

— Robert Burton

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

— Francis Bacon

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

— James Henry Breasted