Ancient Quotes

The Family of Fools is ancient

— Benjamin Franklin

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

The future has an ancient heart.

— Carlo Levi

Ancient goblins, and warlords.

— Ramones

“It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill”

— Jude Watson

“Ancient of Days”

— Nabeel Qureshi

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

— James Russell Lowell

NAFTA is an ancient treaty.

— Wilbur Ross

“Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations.”

— Toba Beta

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

— Aeschylus

Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

— Garth Nix

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

— Socrates

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

— Black Francis

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

— George Herbert

My dad is amazing. He has, like, ancient Chinese skills.

— Simu Liu

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Aristophanes

The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity.

— A. A. Gill

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

— Confucius

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

— Walter Cronkite

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old…

— Anonymous

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

— Audre Lorde

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were…

— Don Marquis

The idea of the universe as an interconnected whole is not new; for millennia it's been one of the core assumptions of…

— Dean Radin

I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be,…

— Jack Handey

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was…

— Mark Twain

Can there be allowed - are we allowed to have any more in the military, General, the element of surprise? You know,…

— Donald Trump

İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most…

— Gerard De Nerval

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And…

— Walt Mossberg

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the…

— Ambrose Bierce

I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal…

— Riane Eisler

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows…

— Glenn Beck

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the…

— Hermann Hesse

The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These…

— Martin Rees

“Only birds and the chittering and rustling of small animals sounded as I entered the still green western forest. I'd never ridden…

— Sarah J. Maas

Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for…

— Mick Dodson