An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' — Tim Sandlin Copy Share Image
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
In ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts! — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What satellites help to show us is we've actually only found a fraction of a percent of ancient settlements and sites all… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to… — David Antin Copy Share Image
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unfortunate are not as miserable as the world imagines. That urchins, the handicapped, orphans, prisoners and others are much happier than… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I have no agenda. I know what I love to do and that's my religion. That's what I recommend to everybody. I… — Eugene Hutz Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Wherever we look in the ancient world the past has been controlled, but nowhere more rigorously than in the history of the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Physics is an otherworld thing, it requires a taste for things unseen, even unheard of- a high degree of abstraction... These faculties… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
