Ancient Quotes · Page 19

I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with.

— Rhys Ifans

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

— Anonymous

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some…

— Leonard Hayflick

In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts!

— Bill Maher

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

— Leon Kass

It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!

— Chuck Palahniuk

The whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking.

— George Sarton

Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.

— Anonymous

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise…

— John Milton

It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the…

— Rick Famuyiwa

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the…

— Isaac D'Israeli

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the…

— Simon Van Booy

Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural…

— Phil Zuckerman

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

— Li Shangyin

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to…

— Cormac McCarthy

We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that…

— Frederick Lenz

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose,…

— Joe Klein

The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it…

— Toni Packer

The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before…

— Paul Davies

Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;…

— Edward Gibbon

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy -…

— Alan Arkin

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple…

— David Gemmell

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

— Tim Sandlin

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

— William Carlos Williams

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

— Margaret Atwood

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

— Frederick Lenz

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

— Alan Titchmarsh

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Ancient Egyptian culture was so enduring. It went on for thousands of years.

— Josh Gates

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

— Gilbert Murray

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

— John Ortberg

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

— Pierre de Fermat

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

— Ambrose Bierce

Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

— Dan Brown

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

— Emi Fontana

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

— Walter Cronkite