Quotes 841 till 860 of 1090.
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
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There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
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