Ancient Quote by Henry David Thoreau

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

— Du Fu

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

— Andre Gide

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an…

— David Mamet

For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

— Aeschylus

You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the wild half…

— Gene Wolfe

Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were;…

— Lord Byron

“Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ancient of Days”

— Nabeel Qureshi

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am…

— Henry David Thoreau

If we will admit time into our thoughts at all, the mythologies, those vestiges of ancient poems, wrecks of poems, so to speak, the…

— Henry David Thoreau

In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous…

— Henry David Thoreau