(53 quotes found)
“It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“Trees are your best antiques”
Alexander Smith
“O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, When none will sweat but for promotion”
William Shakespeare
“The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month”
Robert Lee Hotz
“They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis”
Daniel Defoe
“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.”
French Proverb
“I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.”
Billy Joel
“When antiques started to decline, I shifted more of my square footage over to new furniture and decor, ... The antique mall is now 30 percent of the square footage where at one point it was 100 percent.”
Carol Cunningham