Quotes with old-time

Quotes 2641 till 2660 of 3518.

  • Joseph Joubert The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Sydney Smith The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bob Goddard The years forever fashion new dreams when old ones go. God pity a one-dream man.
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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • T. S. Eliot The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Saki The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Santayana The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • André Malraux Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • Sara Teasdale Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Aaron Spelling There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Bruce Dickinson There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Jane Austen There are as many sorts of love, as there are moments in time.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Antonio Perez There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
    Antonio Perez
    Spanish statesman, secretary King Phillip II (1540 - 1611)
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  • Bryan Batt There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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