Ancient Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time.

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

We're coming into a rebirth of the planet. And some cultures have echoed it, such as the Mayans have echoed that, and it came from the ancient Egyptians.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

O, from the ancient days always there have been travelers. So why should I grieve?

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .

Who knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

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

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America.

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.

Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.