Quotes with old-age

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1369.

  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Bill Ayers Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Orson Welles Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • C. Day Lewis Now the peak of summer's past, the sky is overcast And the love we swore would last for an age seems deceit.
    C. Day Lewis
     
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  • Sir Thomas Malory Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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  • Walter Savage Landor O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Jonathan Swift Observation is an old man's memory.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Margaret Thatcher Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Eliza Cook Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Bob Balaban Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Felix Frankfurter Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Eric Hoffer Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Cato the Elder Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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