Antiquity Quote by Madame de Stael

Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.

— Michael Kimmel

“Educated and ambitious, with their own forthright opinions, the women of the Garvey set did more to determine political direction than many councillors. Their…

— A. H. Septimius

Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…

— Bayard Taylor

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

— Oleg Cassini

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

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

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

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

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

“Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.”

— Jim Robinson

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

“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

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

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

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