Ancient Quotes

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I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied… — Paul Robeson
Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair. And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to… — Wallace Stevens
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any… — Hunter S. Thompson
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog… — Carl Ally
A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships… — Bernard Law Montgomery
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may… — Henry David Thoreau
The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days… — Mark Twain
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. — Francis Picabia
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals… — Winston Churchill
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had… — Brian Andreas
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf -… — Alistair Cooke
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real… — Charles Darwin
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book… — William Butler Yeats
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh… — John Stott
Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be the right religion.… — Richard Dawkins
I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise… — Patrick Swayze
Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to… — Will Durant
Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who… — Cate Blanchett

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