Ancient Quotes

How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.

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.

At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

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.

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

Habits change into character.

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

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

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value.

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

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

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

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

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.