Quotes with old-time

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 3518.

  • Maurice Chevalier Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Leon Trotsky Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Old age is the verdict of life.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Antiphanes Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.
    Antiphanes
    Ancient Greek poet (408 - 334)
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  • Philip Roth Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
    Everyman (2006)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Maurice Chevalier Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Jane Harrison Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Walt Whitman Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alfredo La Mont Old Age: That period in life when we no longer care where our wife is going, as long as she doesn't want us to come along
    Reader's Digest, February 1992
    Alfredo La Mont
    American writer
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Old England liberty - to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • John Selden Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Horace Walpole Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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