Quotes with old-time

Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 3518.

  • Friedrich von Schiller The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Edgar W. Howe The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Ben Horowitz The bad thing about young people starting a company is that sometimes they do it for the wrong reasons or because they have the wrong skill set, but the good thing is that they don't have any of the old paradigms baked into them, so they have a lot of the bright new ideas that are harder to come by as you get older.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Austin O'Malley The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
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    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Josh Billings The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bette Davis The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Ethel Barrymore The best time to make friends is before you need them.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Agatha Christie The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Marguerite Duras The best way to fill time is to waste it.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Shirley MacLaine The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
    Shirley MacLaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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