315 Ancient Quotes for You to Enjoy

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry Pratchett

Cats Worshipped Ancient Ancient Times Were Times Gods Forgotten

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. George H. W. Bush

Day Freedom Man Heart Refreshed World Old Tree Ancient Totalitarian Seems Fact Lifeless Over New Like Ideas Era Leaves Passing Dictator Blowing Blown Blown Away In Fact Old Ideas Breeze Reborn Away

Christmas in Bethlehem. The 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, the incarnation of perfect love. Lucinda Franks

Love Christmas Wise Brilliant Made Men Smell Glorious Sweet Baby Cold Ancient Dream Bethlehem Adoration Perfect Perfect Love Knees Clear Wise Men Shepherds Falling Incarnation Incense Star Night

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up. Andrew J. Bernstein

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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. Niccolo Machiavelli

Good You Every State States Ancient Follow Composite Laws Main New Well Arms Without Inevitably Where Cannot Foundations

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu. Benjamin Netanyahu

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story. Deborah Wiles

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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? Orson F. Whitney

Wisdom History Wealth Honor Power Past Babylon Possessions Ancient Ancient Times Eminence Empires Powers Principle Without Answer Said Overthrow Greece Persia Times Where Rome Mightiest Successive Four Universal

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. Isabel Allende

Family Me Age World Conservative Ancient Ancient Times Born No Wonder Had Knew Wrong Nobody Term Reached Catholic Although Feminist End Wonder End Of The World Five Times Patriarchal Chile Heck Raging

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. Marilyn French

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Stephen Leacock

Fall Back Ancient Ancient Times Statistics Lies Had Times

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. Bruce Lipton

The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25. David Icke

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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. Dwight D. Eisenhower

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. Enid Bagnold

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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. Northrop Frye

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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. W. E. B. Du Bois

People World Matter Nineteenth Indeed Distinction Ancient Laughed Would Discovery Very Personal Modern Century Whiteness Twentieth Twentieth Century Among Thing

There is nothing in the world like the extraordinary Shiraz and Grenache wines from South Australia. While the most sought-after are undeniably expensive (they're made in tiny quantities from ancient vines), they are huge, rich and concentrated, and represent some of planet Earth's most compelling wines. Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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