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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the world became sinful and evil
— Edward Joseph Young
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
— Bal Gangadhar Tilak
What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.
— Mary Renault
For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.
— Theodora
If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.
— Josh McDowell
The holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with the
dust of ages that you can't see through it
nor can they. — Gertrude Bell
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
— Francois Rabelais
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
— Joseph Joubert
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
— Leigh Hunt
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau
With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.
— John Tillotson
Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.
— Meir Soloveichik
IGNORANCE is without gaining Knowledge & Knowledge is gained without IGNORANCE
— Charleston Parker
The great men of antiquity were poor.
— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring.
— Gustave Flaubert
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
— H. P. Blavatsky
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
— William Hazlitt
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
— Sophie Swetchine
Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.
— Susan Howe
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
— Thomas Fuller
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.
— Paul Lafargue
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
— Aristophanes
A novel in which the reader will ask many questions concerning Mayan antiquity.
— Peter J. Wetzelaer
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Just because a word or expression has an antiquity or was once widely used does not confer on it some special immunity
— Bill Bryson
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.
— Sigourney Weaver
In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.
— Marshall McLuhan
Competition of praise inclineth to a reverence of antiquity. For men contend with the living, not with the dead.
— Thomas Hobbes
The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.
— Peter Ackroyd
Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.
— Jules De Goncourt
I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
— Giordano Bruno
The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.
— Madame De Stael
In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.
— Mikhail Bakunin
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
— Joseph Glanvill
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
— William Harvey
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
— Desiderius Erasmus
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
— Ben Jonson
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.
— Stephen Greenblatt
The game of chess is the most fascinating and intellectual pastime which the wisdom of antiquity has bequeathed to us.
— Howard Staunton
The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The entry-level job...is on its way to becoming an antiquity.
— Miya Tokumitsu
Every generation", Aby Warburg mused long ago, "gets the Renaissance of Antiquity that it deserves.
— Anonymous
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
— Hilaire Belloc
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
— Confucius
Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.
— Henry David Thoreau
In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
— Mary Ritter Beard
If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
— John Ruskin
Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.
— Andrew Thomas
From now back to antiquity, its (Tao's) name has not been lost. Thereby, see the origin of all.
— Laozi
The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.
— William Warburton
I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.
— Oleg Cassini
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.
— Charles Lamb
Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
— Henry David Thoreau
History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
— Isaac Asimov
