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I'm not ancient, darling. I'm only fifty. And when it comes to sex a woman of fifty can often outlast a man half her age.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
When lizard-footed giants climbed the hills And with a hundred hands clawed at the sky.
Ancient literature is a rich history.
And from this springs the extraordinary question: Did the Egyptians know about electricity?
Pre-Cambrian Memory.
One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
This is our world now, and those ancient people are dead.
much older than the
The ancient Greeks had two words for time. The first was chronos. The second was kairos. The
Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
at least as old as synthetic penicillin - you
It was passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites.
By Odin's Hairy Arse!
When did one man ever civilize a people?
Despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue.
Times before you, when even the living men were Antiquities; when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world, could not be properly said, to go unto the greater number.
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.
Ancient miracles are technological wonders.
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
In all his years he had not seen one as ancient as this, so obviously belonging to a world far older than his own.
The ancients stole all our ideas from us.
Who invented the word love?
Ancient handmaiden. The door opened directly
in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.
Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.
Well over a million years ago, some new, comparatively modern, upright beings left Africa and boldly spread out across much of the globe.
The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods.
A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in East Africa ... She was four feet tall and probably black..
Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.
soon as rosy-fingered morning came forth from the first grey dawn,
Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C.
I used to come here to think," he told me, landing beside the tree. It was so short that my head was only a few inches above his.
"Sangris," I said in shock, "you think? When did this start?
Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.
When God created Adam,
The claim "oh, that's ancient history" is almost always a wish, am anxious attempt to put a boundary of time around some event that really is not over at all; it is a bid to silence the past.
There were poets before Homer.
The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
OT Old Testament
In the beginning was the myth.
Antiquity and modernity are cut from the same cloth. That is to say, our sense of things being 'ancient' is produced - both historically and in practice - by the sense that we ourselves are 'modern'.
I met a travler from an ancient land.
History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,
when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
More than two thousand five hundred years ago. We have no way of knowing who painted this wall, but he speaks to us across all those centuries. Veii may have been defeated, but the spirit of these people speaks to us and triumphs over time.
Some drill and bore
The solid earth, and from the strata there
Extract a register, by which we learn,
That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
I am ancient. I am dust held together by moonlight.
What he'd seen before, in those ages-ago times, the days before the people had been taught by the gods how to draw the metals from the ground and cut and grind the stone to shelter themselves, was contained in the goat god's nearly perpetual Mona Lisa smile.
Young heads take example of the ancient
For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.
They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern.
Well, okay ... maybe medieval.
In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
It might appear to have been before God.
life was a stone cutting and grinding...
The ancients wrested the secrets from the depths of the earth and from the hearts of the stars, and with those secrets they banished sickness, death, and all forms of discomfort. And sickness, death, and discomfort gathered together and created the demons, and the demons destroyed the ancients.
He was six years old this time, and ancient.
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
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Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.
Tale as old as time,
Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.
It blew my mind that this stuff had survived for two thousand, three thousand years.
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.
You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.
Apes. The moon woke them
round the world's navel revolved
prayer wheels of steps.
petraries and mangonels. Then, at vesper time,
Seek not the paths of the ancients;
Seek that which the ancients sought.
Guy thought of the Greek word agon, wasn't it at once an athletic contest and a style of suffering, an agony?
How do you know antiquity was foolish? How do you know the present is wise? Who made it foolish? Who made it wise?
Fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven
by the late second and first centuries BC, across southern Britain, certain members of society enjoy well-equipped inhumation and cremation burial, the males usually distinguished by swords, the females by mirrors.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
most paleographers now believe that the "idea of writing" must have spread along with commerce, most likely from Sumer to Egypt.33
Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them.
forty years earlier. Quite
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
If one could run the story of that first human group like a speeded-up motion picture through a million years of time, one might see the stone in the hand change to the flint ax and the torch.
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.
When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions we imagined new, blazing with our youth, we find to be ancient beyond imagining.
It was early spring, 326 BC, in the beautiful city of Chersonesus protected by a haunting deep blue sea and a giant wall. Today was the second day of the Festival of Dionysus.
They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
She was truly one of the most ancient and wildest of creatures.
The ancient world was settled so sparsely that nature was not yet eclipsed by man. Nature hit you in the eye so plainly and grabbed you so fiercely and so tangibly by the scruff of the neck that perhaps it really was still full of gods.
I don't think anything predated Christians.
History is as Old as My Grandfather