Ancient Quotes

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When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where… — Henry Norris Russell
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but… — John Pearson
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study… — William Robertson Smith
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. — Pierre de Fermat
The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. — Robert A. Dahl
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or… — Margaret O'Brien
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in… — Penelope Lively
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant,… — Victoria de los Angeles
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. — Victoria de los Angeles
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians… — James Henry Breasted
Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing… — Arthur Machen
After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much… — Carol P. Christ
I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman. — Thomas Day
These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them for investigation below, which undertaking took until the… — Howard Carter
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far… — Henry James Sumner Maine
Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it… — Marie de France
The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. — Morarji Desai
The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of… — Marguerite Gardiner
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. — John Bright
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the… — William Blackstone
There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you… — Sophocles
The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that… — Ai Weiwei
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity.… — Kevin Rudd
Ancient Rome was a violent place. — James Purefoy

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