Ancient quotes
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"Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away."
"Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit."
"Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new."
"Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth."
"There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite"
"Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you."
"China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation."
"Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest."
"Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness."
"For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days."
"The character thing really is sort of, for me, personally, rather ancient history."
"anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher."
"'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society."
"There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’."
"Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind."
"It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?"
"It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri."
"Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out."
"This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable."
"The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived."
