The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Voltaire
Society therefore is an ancient as the world.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Kit Williams
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.
Robert Wilson
There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
Cate Blanchett
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
John Bright
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
Robert Burton
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.
Samuel Butler
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
John McWhorter