Bce Quotes

#1. The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. - Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

Tom Standage

#2. Pitiful are those who, acting, are attached to their action's fruits. The wise man lets go of all results, whether good or bad, and is focused on the action alone. ~ Bhagavad Gita, c. 400 BCE ~ 2:49-50

Larry Chang

#3. An Egyptian medical scroll dating back at least 1,500 years BCE recommended treating migraines by using an electric catfish. In other cultures, electric eels were wrapped around a migraineur's head to ease the pain.

Carolyn Bernstein

#4. It means that Rama was born on 10 January in 5114 BCE at precisely 12.30 pm.' 'And

Ashwin Sanghi

#5. After the death of Archimedes in 212 BCE, the topic of motion was effectively abandoned; it did not resurface for another 1,400 years, when Gerard of Brussels revived the mathematical works of Euclid and Archimedes and came very close to defining speed as a ratio of distance to time.

Joseph Mazur

#6. We don't know much about our hero before 325 BCE-he just sort of materialized out of thin air like a face-melting UFO or a vengeful, homicidal rainbow, but apparently he had some serious beef with people in charge ...

Ben Thompson

#7. Charles Jencks is the most notable landscape and garden designer to carry forward the 3500 BCE-1800CE landscape and garden design agenda.

Tom Turner

#8. Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.

Horace, Roman Poet
Ode I-6, 23 BCE

Vivian Swift

#9. During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.

Tom Standage

#10. If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.

Jerry A. Coyne

#11. They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

Plato

#12. I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or might exist, rather than a transcendent mental state or something like that.

Elizabeth Neel

#13. Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Martin Freeman

#14. Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero

David Cameron

#15. If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Plato

#16. That's Catholicism for you. A perpetual war between repression and excess.

Joanne Harris

#17. Hell has three hates: lust, anger and greed.

Anonymous

#18. Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#19. For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.

Stanley Coren

#20. Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

Robert Reich

#21. I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

Catullus

#22. I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.

Eden Ahbez

#23. Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.

Douglas Mawson

#24. You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

Herb Alpert

#25. A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the fine qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.

Alfred North Whitehead

#26. One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Jan Struther