In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Votes: 4
Terry PratchettOcean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. Votes: 4
H. P. LovecraftAncient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery. Votes: 3
Ihara SaikakuAncient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them. Votes: 3
AristotleDarwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt. Votes: 3
Harun YahyaAncient Hawaiians say: When you're itching for the waves, the only lotion is the ocean. Votes: 3
Josip Broz TitoAncient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend. Votes: 3
LaoziWhen the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying Votes: 3
Robert GreeneAncient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. Votes: 3
Henry FuseliThe Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. Votes: 3
Samuel ButlerI want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane. Votes: 3
Karen Marie MoningSo fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. Votes: 3
Charles KingsleyBacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. Votes: 1
Ambrose BierceAnd perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. Votes: 1
Pierre de FermatIn international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899) Votes: 0
Virchand GandhiAll religions are ancient monuments to superstition, ignorance and ferocity. Votes: 0
Baron d'HolbachAstronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. Votes: 0
William WhewellI believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. Votes: 0
John TempletonI like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRising Sun jostles hard to evaporate doom filled clouds;hovering ancient land. Votes: 0
Aniruddha SastikarThere is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression. Votes: 0
Siddhartha MukherjeeWe need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. Votes: 0
Tanith LeeEvery sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls Votes: 0
Robert WalserWe encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there. Votes: 0
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynMeditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. Votes: 0
Andrew WeilThe ancient God created the old man, capable of erring--thus he erred himself. Votes: 0
Yevgeny ZamyatinAnd here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal. Votes: 0
Harry SeidlerThe games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. Votes: 0
Dorothea BrandeCenturies have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. Votes: 0
Isaac D'IsraeliThe character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history. Votes: 0
David BowieCloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. Votes: 0
Alan BennettThe whole iconography of ancient science is simply the fruit of wishful thinking. Votes: 0
George SartonSocial media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats. Votes: 0
George TakeiAround the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law. Votes: 0
George MeredithThe ancient Apostles were common men, and that was part of their credential. Votes: 0
David A. BednarNo way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThere are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to. Votes: 0
Cate BlanchettWe extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.] Votes: 0
TacitusBlossom time has come and many ancient seekers are today getting their Self Realization. Votes: 0
Nirmala SrivastavaTo the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance. Votes: 0
Sidney SheldonTrue myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time. Votes: 0
Phil CousineauIf atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones. Votes: 0
Gustave Le BonI learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language. Votes: 0
Gary JenningsIn ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant. Votes: 0
Tom TurnerWho knows for sure how complex or how uncomplex the ancient people's lives were. Votes: 0
Owsley StanleyThe proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. Votes: 0
Arthur KeithEvery day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient. Votes: 0
Martin AmisThe vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. Votes: 0
Morarji DesaiAlmost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. Votes: 0
Robert BurtonGeorgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. Votes: 0
Mikhail SaakashviliThe rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest... Votes: 0
Charles Tennyson TurnerGeorgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. Votes: 0
Mikheil SaakashviliPrudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. Votes: 0
William FlemingIn ancient times they sacrificed the virgins. Men were not about to sacrifice the sluts! Votes: 0
Bill MaherIn the ancient times, bards went around singing the epics, which were storehouses of philosophy. Votes: 0
Amish TripathiThe man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian. Votes: 0
James Henry BreastedIrrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. Votes: 0
Mike McAlaryFire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. Votes: 0
Caroline PaulAn ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three. Votes: 0
Fred BrooksYesterday is as ancient as a millennia ago, because both are forever out of reach. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzWe are pieces of ancient Earth, bits of sacred story soaked in intellect and dirt. Votes: 0
Oak ChezarThe earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds. Votes: 0
Fernand BraudelFor the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. Votes: 0
Leigh HuntA thicket of summer grass / Is all that remains / Of the dreams of ancient warriors. Votes: 0
Matsuo BashoThese ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope. Votes: 0
Elaine PagelsI summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent Votes: 0
William Butler YeatsIf you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young. Votes: 0
David GemmellThe ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude. Votes: 0
Brennan ManningBe versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers. Votes: 0
ConfuciusThe shadows of twilight grow, And the tiger's ancient fierceness In my veins begins to flow. Votes: 0
William Wetmore StoryJesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America... Votes: 0
Orson Pratt"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass." Votes: 0
Nora Roberts...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? Votes: 0
Margaret Peterson Haddix... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart. Votes: 0
Samuel FlormanHold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning. Votes: 0
LaoziI wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman. Votes: 0
Thomas DayForgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained. Votes: 0
Hugh PratherBut that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did. Votes: 0
Patricia BriggsAlltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps. Votes: 0
Douglas AdamsIt's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. Votes: 0
Francois RabelaisBreaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance. Votes: 0
Matsuo BashoEros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks. Votes: 0
SapphoThe dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God. Votes: 0
John MellencampAnything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. Votes: 0
Joanne HarrisThe modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know. Votes: 0
Coventry PatmoreAs the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky Votes: 0
Carl SaganIt is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars! Votes: 0
W. E. B. Du BoisSome ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIf all the ancient sacred writings had been preserved, some would be found to be heretical. Votes: 0
Nachman of BreslovHokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. Votes: 0
Harrison FordTHEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiThe ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. Votes: 0
John F. KennedyFriendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineI shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it. Votes: 0
Brunello CucinelliPart of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation. Votes: 0
Michael SteinhardtIn the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem. Votes: 0
Elie MetchnikoffA phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person. Votes: 0
Howard RheingoldSports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives. Votes: 0
Jonathan HaidtFaith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. Votes: 0
Sophie SwetchineThe Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiAn ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. Votes: 0
Jean-Marie Le PenAll the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon Votes: 0
VoltaireAccording to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat Votes: 0
MoliereAll this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. Votes: 0
Paul BeattyBut why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions? Votes: 0
Ellen DouglasHatreds never cease by hatreds in this world. By love alone they cease. This is an ancient Law. Votes: 0
Gautama BuddhaMany an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.' Votes: 0
Terry PratchettThe simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgUniversalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal. Votes: 0
Arthur KeithI think we [with Riccardo Tisci] share a sensibility about art - we pull from the ancient future. Votes: 0
Erykah BaduI'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding. Votes: 0
Leonardo DiCaprioCookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important. Votes: 0
George EllwangerLet us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn. Votes: 0
Edward CokeNot unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. Votes: 0
Victoria de los AngelesWhen I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated. Votes: 0
John FuscoDifficulty" is the name of an ancient tool that was created purely to help us define who we are. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoAsk counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. Votes: 0
Francis BaconTrials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood. Votes: 0
Warren E. BurgerIf I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to sleep with. Votes: 0
Rhys IfansIt is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. Votes: 0
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyI write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. Votes: 0
Caroline LawrenceI am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War. Votes: 0
Paul Virilio