169 Quotations with Ancient.
- 1. Michael McClary: Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It' ...
- 2. Will Rogers: Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us ...
- 3. John Peter Zenger: No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, o ...
- 4. John F. Kennedy: Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that th ...
- 5. Author Unknown: A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity ...
- 6. Shaftesbury: It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and ...
- 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevita ...
- 8. Ambrose Bierce: ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial ri ...
- 9. Ambrose Bierce: BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. T ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: BERENICE'S HAIR, n. A constellation (_Coma Berenices_) named in honor of one who ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: CROSS, n. An ancient religious symbol erroneously supposed to owe its significan ...
- 12. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 13. Ambrose Bierce: ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believe ...
- 14. Ambrose Bierce: ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient p ...
- 15. Ambrose Bierce: FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and ...
- 16. Ambrose Bierce: FLY-SPECK, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the ...
- 17. Ambrose Bierce: FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a ...
- 18. Ambrose Bierce: FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institu ...
- 19. Ambrose Bierce: GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outsid ...
- 20. Ambrose Bierce: GORGON, n.
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