Quotes with old-age

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1369.

  • Confucius The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Thomas Robert Malthus The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.
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  • George Santayana The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Joseph Joubert The passions of the young are vices in the old.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • George Santayana The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Enid Bagnold The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Ludwig Feuerbach The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.
    Ludwig Feuerbach
    German philosopher (1804 - 1872)
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  • Nadine Gordimer The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Bruce Kent The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
    Bruce Kent
     
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  • Ben Stein The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • George Foreman The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: ''Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?''
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Doris Day The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''
    Doris Day
    American singer, actress and animal activist (1922 - 2019)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Bill Medley The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
    Source: Works (1913) IV, 315
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Adam Clarke The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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