“It is an ancient mariner, / And he stoppeth one of three.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms - you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.”
Ambrose Bierce
“The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.”
Samuel Butler
“Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to reproduce. Their developmental program is very similar, whether we are talking fruit flies or humans. As a result, these findings could eventually help us understand and treat defects in germ cell development that lead to human infertility and disease.”
Mark van Doren
“Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.”
Lenny Bruce
“An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.”
Terry Pratchett
