Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven! — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship. You get it by applying the old, old rules of decent conduct, the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script,… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us. — Howard Staunton Copy Share Image
Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
