Antiquity Quote by John Zimmerman Download Open image “Pride in boasting of family antiquity, makes duration stand for merit.” — John Zimmerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Antiquity Antiquity Makes Boasting Boasting Family Duration Family Family Antiquity Makes Merit Pride Pride Boasting Stand
In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“To be of noble birth is a great advantage. In eighteen years it places a man within the select circle, known and respected, as… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“...as this is ordinarily the fate of young heads, so reflection upon the folly of it, is as ordinarily the exercise of more years,… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Our belief is that it is a basket of well-diversified companies that are playing the Internet, but are not direct Internet companies. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Careers are defined by four minutes on the ice and lives can change forever, emotionally and financially. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
I thank the Almighty for the most wonderful 18 years. Far, far, too short a time. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. — John Zimmerman Copy Share Image
The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
“Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.” — Jim Robinson Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity. — Oleg Cassini Copy Share Image
