Quotes 901 till 917 of 917.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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Philanthropist: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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