Ancient Quotes · Page 8

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

— Anonymous

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

When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t…

— Karen Marie Moning

I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I…

— Brian Andreas

At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken…

— Asghar Farhadi

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one…

— Jerry Saltz

Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped…

— P. G. Wodehouse

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but…

— Mo Yan

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient,…

— Normandi Ellis

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps…

— Joseph Addison

Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think…

— Holly Black

We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the…

— Maureen Johnson

Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And…

— David Abram

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This…

— Charles Krauthammer

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded…

— Lenny Bruce

Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods…

— Tana French

While many have doubted the accuracy of the Bible, time and continued research have consistently demonstrated that the Word of God is…

— Norman Geisler

The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding…

— Lynn Culbreath Noel

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

— Robert Downey, Jr

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

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Egyptian culture was so enduring. It went on for thousands of years.

— Josh Gates

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

— Pierre de Fermat

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

— John Ortberg

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.

— Gilbert Murray

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

— Ambrose Bierce

Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.

— Emi Fontana

Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

— Dan Brown

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

— Margaret Atwood

I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

— Alan Titchmarsh