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 DefoeThe
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 ArmstrongIt 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 ColeridgeAncient 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 RogersI have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so
ancient and so new!
View quotes by Saint AugustineThere 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 PratchettTo 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 McGinleyThe 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 NiebuhrIt 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 YeatsAs 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 BrownIt'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 IIThe
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 BrundageThe 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 HobbesThey are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their
ancient custom.
View quotes by William CongreveIn
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 HigginsonHad W G Grace been born in
ancient Greece, the Iliad would have been a different book.
View quotes by Bishop Of HerefordSomewhere 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 DunphyWere 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 AddisonA language is a more
ancient and inevitable thing than any state.
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