Quotes with old-guard

Quotes 641 till 660 of 951.

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Richard Dawkins The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
    The God Delusion
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Robert Browning The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Doris Lessing The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Frederick the Great The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
    An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
    The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
    Speech, September 2004
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Will Durant The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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