Best 393 quotes in «ancient quotes» category

Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

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

Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

Dharma is an ancient word for truth.

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.

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

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.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

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.

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

Habits change into character.

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

If all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical.

If you start watching the oldies, you're in trouble. I feel ancient if "Grand Hotel" or "The Bride Wore Red" comes on. I have a sneaking regard for "Mildred Pierce", but the others do nothing for me.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.