Famous quotes containing the words ancient time, feet, ancient and/or time:
“In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah 52:7.
“Here lies a man who was killed by lightning;
He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.
He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble,
But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.”
—Anonymous. From Booth, Epigrams Ancient and Modern (1863)
“By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)