Quotes with old-timers

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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Confucius Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Groucho Marx Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Few people know how to be old.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Charles Sumner I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
    Charles Sumner
    American politician and U.S. Senator (1811 - 1874)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Hambly It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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  • Carl Sandburg Lay me on an anvil, O God.
    Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
    Let me pry loose old walls.
    Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
    Prayers of Steel (1920)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Russell Baker People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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