Ancient Quotes · Page 21

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

— John Webster

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

— Alan Rickman

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

— Francois Rabelais

In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy.

— Amish Tripathi

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

— Voltaire

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be…

— Henry Gray

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

— Isak Dinesen

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

— Anonymous

No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of…

— Elie Wiesel

The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger…

— Silvio Berlusconi

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. ... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times…

— E. J. W. Barber

The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete…

— Pierre Schaeffer

It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's…

— Michael Bierut

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that…

— Anonymous

Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness.…

— Eckhart Tolle

If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic…

— Theodore William Richards

The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third…

— Bob Barr

What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this…

— Hermann Hesse

There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because…

— Erwin Schrodinger

Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of…

— Robert M. Schoch

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry…

— Diane Ackerman

“Central to all these interlinked themes was that curious irrational, phi, the Golden Section. Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt…

— John Anthony West

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we…

— William James

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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

— William Fleming

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

— James Garner

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

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

— Joanne Harris

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

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

— Henry Fuseli

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

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

— John Lancaster Spalding

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

— David A. Bednar

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mari Mancusi

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

— Carl Sandburg