Ancient Quotes

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? (Will Rogers)
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this. View quote
Terry Pratchett
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island. View quote
William Blackstone
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. View quote
William Congreve
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. View quote
Voltaire
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient. (Voltaire)
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. View quote
Loren Eiseley
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. View quote
Emil Cioran
The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. View quote
Morarji Desai
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. (Robert Burton)
Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion. View quote
Bertrand Russell
England awake awake awake Jerusalem thy sister calls Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls. View quote
William Blake
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you The languid strings do scarcely move The sound is forced, the notes are few. View quote
William Blake
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp. View quote
Heinrich Heine