Quotes with old-time

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  • William Shakespeare Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Steve Jobs Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
    Speech Stanford university, 14-06-2005
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Francis Picabia Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carolyn Wells Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Ullman Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind.
    Youth 1
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Euripides Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Walt Whitman Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Benito Mussolini [To a railway stationmaster:] We must leave exactly on time.... From now on everything must function to perfection.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Elias Canetti A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • William Shakespeare A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Groucho Marx A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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