Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.

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.

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.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

An ancient Vedic aphorism says, "Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality." When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every moment and reverse the aging process.

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

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.

Ancient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean.

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

And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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.

An English homegrey twilight poured On dewy pasture, dewy trees, Softer than sleepall things in order stored, A haunt of ancient Peace.

Ancient travelers guessed; modern travelers measure.

Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.

A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law.

As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky.

As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

A thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

Back in the day, you'd walk down to a street corner and see some people making a story with a hat in front of them. It's ancient entertainment, ancient storytelling and oral history - now we're doing it on YouTube.

Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.

By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

Chârvâkas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists.

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.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.