Quotes with old-guard

Quotes 881 till 900 of 951.

  • Abigail Van Buren Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Armstrong Williams With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Francis Bacon Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Mae West Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Burgess Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Write on your doors the saying wise and old. ''Be bold!'' and everywhere - ''Be bold; Be not too bold!'' Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • William Shakespeare Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • C. S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Les Brown You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Brendan Gleeson You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Mohsin Hamid You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • George Burns You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Jack Kerouac You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
    Jack Kerouac
    American novelist and poet (1922 - 1969)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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