Ancient Quotes · Page 5

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“Ancient miracles are technological wonders.”

— Toba Beta

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

— Albert Pike

“Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.”

— Elizabeth Cary

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

— Frederick Lenz

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Fear is the ghost of ancient. It consumes faithless human.”

— Toba Beta

“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

— Winston Churchill

Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

— Warren E. Burger

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

— Len Wein

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

— Shan Sa

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Anonymous

I'm inspired by lines, by shapes, when I see a dress on a person, when I see a beauty in a face,…

— Russell James

İstanbul is a magical seal which unites Europe and Asia since the ancient times. Without a doubt, Istanbul is certainly the most…

— Gerard De Nerval

O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For…

— William Watson

It's no accident that of all the monuments left of the Greco- Roman culture the biggest is the ballpark, the Colosseum, the…

— Red Smith

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Our brains have been designed to blur the line between self and other. It is an ancient neural circuitry that marks every…

— Frans de Waal

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And…

— Walt Mossberg

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were…

— Don Marquis

“Only birds and the chittering and rustling of small animals sounded as I entered the still green western forest. I'd never ridden…

— Sarah J. Maas

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame…

— Winston Churchill

Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for…

— Mick Dodson

I pray for a world where we live in partnership rather than domination; where "man's conquest of nature" is recognized as suicidal…

— Riane Eisler

It is thus hardly surprising that so many of the great minds in recent history have concerned themselves with economic matters. Indeed,…

— Paul Zane Pilzer

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows…

— Glenn Beck

One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every…

— Charlie Campbell

“It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill”

— Jude Watson

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

— George Papandreou

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

— Rick Riordan

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I don't need to be ancient to be worth something.”

— Aimee Carter

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

— Charles Baudelaire

My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

— Mary Beard