Antiquarians Quotes & Sayings

Books are reason to get up in the morning. — Nina Sankovitch

Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion. — Suzy Kassem

A hundred years of scholarly thinking has stretched back a million-fold the age of the Earth. But these same diviners, antiquarians and scholars are thinking now as they did a hundred years ago, when it comes to the age of civilizations; they can't even begin to concede that civilizations might have very old histories. The Earth is allowed to be millions of millions of years old, but the birth of civilization is still set somewhere between two thousand B.C., depending on the bias of the archaeological school and the definition of civilization. — Doris Lessing

(PORTRAIT: Adam and Adam in the Garden) — Jandy Nelson

One of the symptoms of those going completely yo-yo was that they broke out in chronic cats. — Terry Pratchett

America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our favorite movie stars. — Marilyn Manson

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it. — Henry David Thoreau

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. — Henri Frederic Amiel

and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands. — Charles Bukowski

It is from Italy that we are flinging this to the world, our manifesto of burning and overwhelming violence, with which we today establish " Futurism ," for we intend to free this nation from its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for. — Odell Shepard

You're not upset.' 'I am.' 'You deserve to be. — Alain De Botton

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events. They call upon it to explain the problems of their own time, to give to those problems a philosophical context, a continuum in which they may be reduced to proportion and perhaps made intelligible." — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper