Ancient Quote by James Boswell Download Open image “Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.” — James Boswell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Believe Inspirational Quotations Universal
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
The thing about quotes on the internet is that you can't confirm their validity. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning.… — Andy Clark Copy Share Image
“A good quote is an excerpt of universal truth, in an otherwise speculative work.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image