Quotes 241 till 260 of 1369.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
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Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace with it - that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Source: Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan -
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'.Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964) -
Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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