Quotes:Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of
ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish
View quotes by Edward BachAn
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 PratchettAncient 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 RogersThe political tradition of
ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
View quotes by Silvio BerlusconiThere 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 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 ArmstrongThe
ancient dream - a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby [on Christmas in Bethlehem]
View quotes by Lucinda FranksThe 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 NiebuhrAs 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 BrownThe grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to
ancient custom.
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