All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense. — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Mr. Teifert’s practically ancient – at least forty, I’d say – and so not sexy or cute or Australian.” — Mari Mancusi Copy Share Image
The ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential. — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
In particular, Australia, because of its ancient geography, soil profile and distinctive weather patterns, is more adversely affected by climate variability than… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The guitar, by its very nature, the nature of its sound, by the soft nuance of its powerful and ancient voice, by… — Pepe Romero Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose,… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.” — S.E. Harmon Copy Share Image
An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three." — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New… — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats. — George Takei Copy Share Image
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be… — Henry Gray Copy Share Image
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
In the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. — Amish Tripathi 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
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
