Ancients Quote by Mark Twain

I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in…

— Julie Delpy

A thief who stole a calendar . . . got twelve months.

— Nikhil Saluja

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

— Pierre de Fermat

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We could learn a lot from the ancients, and we should go back there.

— Oliver Stone

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

— William Penn

The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience, that the…

— Edgar Mitchell

Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural,…

— Franz Grillparzer

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in…

— Gustave Courbet

“Et peut-être la posterité me saura gré de lui avoir fait connaître que les Anciens n’ont pas tout su. ( And perhaps, posterity will…

— Pierre De Fermat

“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis