Ancient of Days

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

— Henry David Thoreau

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

— Du Fu

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

— Aeschylus

You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half…

— Gene Wolfe

Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;…

— Lord Byron

“Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Laozi

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

— Henry David Thoreau

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

— Helen Garner

I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate…

— Joe Dunthorne

“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…

— Milan Kundera

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,…

— Confucius

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita