21 Quotations with Antiquity.
- 1. Joseph Addison: It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness t ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where th ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in t ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamat ...
- 7. Confucius: I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond o ...
- 8. Cicero: History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates rea ...
- 9. Thomas Fuller: A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
- 10. William Hazlitt: Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look ba ...
- 11. William Shakespeare: Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasin ...
- 12. Luigi Russolo: In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the inventi ...
- 13. Nathaniel Hawthorne: No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance ...
- 14. Victor Hugo: The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as i ...
- 15. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
- 16. Plutarch: To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to contin ...
- 17. Charles Caleb Colton: To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
- 18. Daniel Defoe: Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; ...
- 19. Henry David Thoreau: What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple ...
- 20. Henry Morris: Even higher critics have often admitted that the tenth chapter of Genesis is a r ...
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