Ancient Quotes

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

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

Atlantis was destroyed by the greed of its inhabitants.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.

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

The future has an ancient heart.

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.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

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

The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness

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

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning.

Habits change into character.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

The ways of the mind are ancient, but you are timeless

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.

Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

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

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.

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.

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.

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.

What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This is the ancient alchemical formula: "as above, so below, as within, so without."

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

that's me. ancient history." [Poseidon to Paul]

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

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.