I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full. — Sulla Copy Share Image
In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude. — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Pies were invented 12,000 years ago by the Egyptians. It was an easy way to preserve food that would be carried over… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge... — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Peering, I heard the hooves come down the hill. The posse passed, twelve horse; the leader's face Was worn as limestone on… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of… — Ahmed H. Zewail Copy Share Image
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that explain nothing are not welcome...… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They… — Paul Provenza Copy Share Image
Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. — Warren E. Burger Copy Share Image
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest... — Charles Tennyson Turner Copy Share Image
The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence. — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh? — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. — Confucius Copy Share Image
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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