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They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of british
View quotes by Daniel Defoe

The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.
View quotes by Michael Armstrong

It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?'
View quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
View quotes by Will Rogers

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
View quotes by Saint Augustine

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
View quotes by Camille Paglia

An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

View quotes by Terry Pratchett

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley

The final test of religious faith is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.
View quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.'
View quotes by W B Yeats

As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non-fiction-histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts.
View quotes by Dan Brown

It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught.
View quotes by Oscar Hammerstein II

The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right.
View quotes by Avery Brundage

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
View quotes by William Congreve

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.
View quotes by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Had W G Grace been born in ancient Greece, the Iliad would have been a different book.
View quotes by Bishop Of Hereford

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer [on being a goalkeeper!]
View quotes by Eamonn Dunphy

Were I to affirm that Laennec contributed more towards the advancement of the medical art than any other single individual, either of ancient or of modern times, I should probably be advancing a proposition which, in the estimation of many, is neither extravagant nor unjust.
View quotes by Thomas Addison

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
View quotes by Joseph Brodsky



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