Quotes About Josephus

#1. I understand there was some controversy about the coroner's ruling concerning Josephus Jones's

Wally Lamb

#2. In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.

Carl Sagan

#3. I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

Flavius Josephus

#4. Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

#5. A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind ... he will need only six feet of earth.

Josephus Daniels

#6. Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

Flavius Josephus

#7. The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind.

Josephus

#8. We will embrace you in uniform today, we will embrace you without uniform tomorrow.

Josephus Daniels

#9. The virtuous shall have the power to revive and live again. All pure and holy spirits live on in heavenly places, and in course of time they are again sent down to inhabit righteous bodies

Josephus

#10. Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Josephus

#11. All of us have mortal bodies, composed of perishable matter, but the soul lives forever: it is a portion of the Deity housed in our bodies

Josephus

#12. Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

Josephus Daniels

#13. To compel the nation with challenge the traditional American doctrine of freedom of the seas, every man and every ship in the navy is solemnly pledged.

Josephus Daniels

#14. So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

Josephus Daniels

#15. Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.

Josephus Daniels

#16. Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon.

Flavius Josephus

#17. Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

Flavius Josephus

#18. There is no rank in sacrifice.

Josephus Daniels

#19. Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

Josephus

#20. Good God! This man should be writing dime novels.

Josephus Daniels

#21. Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.

Josephus

#22. And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.

Josephus

#23. When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the gods sent storms of wind and overthrew the tower, and gave every one his peculiar language; and for this reason it was that the city was called Babylon.

Josephus

#24. Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Josephus

#25. Destroyers were the first to herald our entrance into the war.

Josephus Daniels

#26. They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.

Josephus

#27. If the soul be pure, then shall she obtain favor and rejoice in the latter day; but if she hath been defiled, then shall she wander for a time in pain and despair.

Josephus

#28. The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Josephus Daniels

#29. Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats.

Josephus Daniels

#30. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

Josephus Daniels