Ancient Quotes - Page 4

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

One service to need heals an ancient wound.

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

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

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

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

To be skeptical of the resultant text of the New Testament books is to allow all of classical antiquity to slip into obscurity, for no documents of the ancient period are as well attested bibliographically as the New Testament.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

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

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

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

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

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

A very ancient and fish-like smell.

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

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

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

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

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.