Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject… — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
[I]t is true that [the provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skilful. A special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
More than sixty years ago, mathematical logicians, by defining precisely the concept of an algorithm, gave content to the ancient human idea… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners. — William Warburton Copy Share Image
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job.… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein was fascinated by ancient Babylon and Assyria. He made money available to protect and develop the great archaeological sites. The… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken… — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
He [Democritus] is probably best known for two of the most scientifically intuitive quotes ever uttered by an ancient: 'Nothing exists except… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one… — Moliere Copy Share Image
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