Definition of Antiquity

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Antiquity

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Old age.

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

The ancients; the people of ancient times.

An old gentleman.

A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]

Related Definitions:

Age, An, Ancient, Ancientness, Antiquity, As, Being, Cicero, Coin, Eloquent, Family, Former, Gentleman, Great, In, Institution, Long, Monument, Of, Old, Or, Orator, Past, People, Plural, Quality, Relic, Remarkable, Sense, Since, Statue, The, This, Times, Was

Antiquity Quotations

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
John Milton

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
Xun Zi

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
Desiderius Erasmus

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
Pierre Bayle

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Thomas Fuller

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt

Antiquity Translations

antiquity in Dutch is oudheid
antiquity in German is Altertum {n}, Antike {f}, Altertum {n}
antiquity in Swedish is forntiden, antiken

Quotes