Quotes with old-guard

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  • Eugene O'Neill The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
    Eugene O'Neill
    American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature (1888 - 1953)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Oscar Wilde The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adam Savage The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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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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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • William O. Douglas The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Richard Harding Davis The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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