Ancient Quotes - Page 5

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

Eat only until you're 4/5 full. An ancient Japanese injunction.

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

Young heads take example of the ancient

Nature and society are so replete with startling contrasts that wit often consists in the mere statement and comparison of facts, as when Hume says that the ancient Muscovites wedded their wives with a whip instead of a ring.

It is a mistake to consider marriage merely as a scheme of happiness. It is also a bond of service. It is the most ancient form of that social ministration which God has ordained for all human beings, and which is symbolized by all the relations of nature.

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

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

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

Everything comes from your own heart. This is what one ancient called bringing out the family treasure.

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

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.