Quotes 841 till 860 of 1466.
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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Old Man Howard, that Old Man Howard, he just keeps rolling, just keeps rolling.
Andrew Pierce, Boris on a roll, The Times, 29 April 2005, p. 40. -
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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On stage, you rehearse for five weeks, and it goes out to 300 people. In 'EastEnders,' you get ten minutes to rehearse, and seven million people watch it!
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
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On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.
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Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
(2006)
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