Ancient Quotes · Page 16

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

— George Meredith

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

— Confucius

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

— Julian Jaynes

“Wilier races had interbred with human race during immemorial. Therefore no need to look for them on anywhere but in ourselves.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

“Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always use to be that way?”

— Ray Bradbury

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with…

— Italo Calvino

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

— Sophie Swetchine

In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil…

— Terry Pratchett

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into…

— William Butler Yeats

Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will…

— Marie de France

The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by…

— David Hume

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted…

— Raquel Cepeda

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make…

— Frank Herbert

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for…

— Budd Schulberg

Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are…

— Anonymous

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided…

— Svante Arrhenius

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the…

— Jacques Maritain

As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient…

— Wes Nisker

There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -…

— Margaret E. Knight

I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud…

— Tilda Swinton

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages…

— Stacy Schiff

For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the…

— Tess Gerritsen

All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they…

— Brock Adams

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

— Patricia Briggs

'Frankenstein' feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms.

— Kenneth Branagh

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

— Robert Greene

We need modern ideas, but we also need ancient wisdom. If we deny ancient wisdom we are making a big mistake.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they…

— L. Ron Hubbard

“The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.”

— Frank Wilczek

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

— Andy Serkis

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming…

— Theodor Herzl

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

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the…

— Kate Morton

An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.

— Ming-Dao Deng

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

— Isaac Newton

I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.

— Malachi Kirby

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

— Nicolas Cage