Olden Times Quotes

• I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Knowing, Quests

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• And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

  Winston Churchill

  Recovery, Years, Cups

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Beard, Emblems, Piety

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• In the olden times, the diversity of groups was largely a geographical matter. There were many societies, but each, within its own territory, was comparatively homogeneous. But with the development of commerce, transportation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different traditional customs. It is this situation which has, perhaps more than any other one cause, forced the demand for an educational institution which shall provide something like a homogeneous and balanced environment for the young.

  John Dewey

  Country, Educational, Diversity

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• There's a lot of women in blues music, lots of strong women and that sort of stuff. It's not the first thing that comes to mind when you think about blues. There were a lot of powerful blues guitar players in the olden times that were women. It's just that when you think about blues, you have this one image in your mind.

  Mirel Wagner

  Strong Women, Powerful, Player

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Let us look forward to the time when we can take the flag of our country and nail it below the Cross, and there let it wave as it waved in the olden times, and let us gather around it and inscribed for our motto: 'Liberty and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever,' and exclaim, 'Christ first, our country next!'

  Andrew Johnson

  Country, Forever, Liberty

  Andrew Johnson (1862). “Expulsion of Mr. Bright: Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, January 31, 1862”, p.16

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• In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Want, Today

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• The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heart, Fire, Blood

  Bayard Taylor (1865). “The Poems of Bayard Taylor”, p.13, Boston : Ticknor and Fields

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• In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.

  Hugh Latimer

  Enemy, Deceit, Bouquets

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• In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy. Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created. The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Blood, Office

  "Pathways to Peace: Interreligious Readings and Reflections". Book by A. Jean Lesher, p. 111, 2005.

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• Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

  Edward Hoagland

  Running, Hurt, Animal

  Edward Hoagland (1995). “The Tugman's Passage”

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• Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time.

  Alfred Marshall

  Slavery, Slave, Ordinances

  Alfred Marshall (2010). “Principles of Economics”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.

  Eliphas Levi

  Gold, Matter, Spirit

  Eliphas Levi (2011). “The Dogma of High Magic”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• The experiences of men who walked with God in olden times agree to teach that the Lord cannot fully bless the a man until He has first conquered him. The degree of blessing enjoyed by any man will correspond exactly with the completeness of God's victory over him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Blessing, Men, Victory

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• A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

  Michael Ende

  Past, Stories, Never Ending Story

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• In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Marriage, Sacrifice

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