Quotes with old-time

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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Aeschylus Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Billy Joel Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Willa Cather Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • 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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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas J. Watson Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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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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  • Burt Rutan With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Will Rogers With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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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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  • John Milton With thee conversing I forget all time.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bob Ross Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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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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