Ancient Quotes

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An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of… — Terry Pratchett
I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times,… — Ray Bradbury
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us… — Sebastian Barry
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of… — Saddam Hussein
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. — Joseph Brodsky
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to… — Richard Holbrooke
I believe that a woman should always remain a woman and nothing feminine should be alien to her. At the same time, I strongly feel… — Valentina Tereshkova
I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many… — Richard Baxter
Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. — Aristotle
The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most… — Gerard van der Leeuw
Like belief, doubt takes a lot of different forms, from ancient Skepticism to modern scientific empiricism, from doubt in many gods to doubt in one… — Jennifer Michael Hecht
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her… — Anne Rice
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… — Sigmund Freud
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo… — Alfred Kinsey
Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go… — Janet Lembke
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and… — Camille Paglia
You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is… — Gautama Buddha
In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible. — Gautama Buddha
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class… — W. E. B. Du Bois
There is an ancient saying, famous among men, that thou shouldst not judge fully of a man's life before he dieth, whether it should be… — Sophocles
You find yourself by losing yourself. By not thinking about yourself all of the time. When I am in a slump with my writing, I'll… — Doug Peacock

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