Ancient Quotes · Page 18

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

— Charles Lamb

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

— Anonymous

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

— Michel de Montaigne

“They were bound by the most ancient law of all. He had fought and killed for her. She was his.”

— Lisa Marie Rice

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

— Rhys Ifans

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

— Leonard Hayflick

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

— Anonymous

Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.

— Anonymous

The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic]…

— Swami Abhedananda

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the…

— Ambrose Bierce

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going…

— Barack Obama

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will…

— Orson Scott Card

The vibratory toxicity of these subsequent ages would make it impossible for reincarnating members of the Order to go deeply enough into…

— Frederick Lenz

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the…

— Steven Pinker

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Diane Ackerman

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

“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

I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:…

— Henry Cavill

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to…

— Sarah Parcak

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of…

— Albert Pike

We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the…

— Sam Smith

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

— John F. Kennedy

Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it.

— Zahi Hawass

War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify…

— Arthur Helps

The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history.

— David Bowie

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

— Steven Pressfield

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

— Robert Downey, Jr

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Bill Maher

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

— George Sarton

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

— Len Wein