Ancient famous quotes
04-09-2025
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It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
-- Albert Pike -
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
-- Anita Brookner -
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
-- Anne Rice -
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
-- Arthur Keith -
There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).
-- Arthur Koestler -
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.
-- Augustus William Hare -
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
-- Barbara Mertz -
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
-- Bertrand Russell -
All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.
-- Bill Vaughan -
From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.
-- Brad Meltzer -
Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
-- Camille Paglia -
Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
-- Carl E. Olson -
At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.
-- Carol P. Christ -
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.
-- Caroline Paul -
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
-- Cate Blanchett -
We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.
-- Charles Lamb -
China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.
-- Chiang Kai-shek -
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
-- Clyde Tombaugh -
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
-- Coventry Patmore -
Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.
-- Cyprian -
Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
-- Dean Hamer -
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.
-- Dora Russell -
O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?
-- Du Fu -
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
-- Edmund Husserl -
It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple -
In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
-- G. H. Hardy -
Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.
-- Garth Nix -
Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree of life. Such were the intervals between the ancient and mediaeval time, the mediaeval and the modern.
-- George Edward Woodberry -
In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.
-- George Papandreou -
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
-- George Santayana -
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.
-- Guru Nanak -
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.
-- Gustave Le Bon -
Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to the hidden, spiritual things of life.
-- Harold Klemp -
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
-- Harry Seidler -
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.
-- Hugh Prather -
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.
-- Isak Dinesen -
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
-- Italo Calvino -
Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.
-- Jack Zipes -
Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
-- James Boswell -
The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
-- James Henry Breasted -
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
-- James Russell Lowell -
Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen -
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
-- Joanne Harris -
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
-- Johannes Stark -
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.
-- John Arbuthnot -
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
-- Joseph Joubert -
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.
-- Josip Broz Tito -
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
-- Kit Williams -
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.
-- Laurence Sterne -
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.
-- Leigh Hunt -
There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.
-- Len Wein -
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
-- Leon Kass -
There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite
-- Louise Hay -
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
-- Maajid Nawaz -
In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.
-- Mantak Chia -
It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
-- Margaret Atwood -
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.
-- Marion Zimmer Bradley -
Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.
-- Matt Ridley -
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
-- Matthew Arnold -
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.
-- Maturin Murray Ballou -
Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.
-- Mikhail Saakashvili -
According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
-- Moliere -
The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless
-- Mooji -
If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.
-- Nachman of Breslov -
Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
-- Natalie -
The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.
-- Nathalia Crane -
Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America...
-- Orson Pratt -
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
-- Ovid -
Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now.
-- Ovid -
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.
-- Paul Beatty -
The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness
-- Pavel Tsatsouline -
Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.
-- Pete Seeger -
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
-- Peter Singer -
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
-- Pierre de Fermat -
Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.
-- Rachel Caine -
The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom.
-- Rebecca Adamson -
I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls
-- Robert Walser -
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
-- Robin S -
Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?
-- Sam Shoemaker -
The rich are always enamored of the ancient.
-- Samuel R. Delany -
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
-- Shan Sa
