Quotes with old-timers

Quotes 381 till 400 of 903.

  • Penelope Fitzgerald It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Barry McGee It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Bobby Darin Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Douglas Macarthur Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Walt Whitman Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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  • Eileen Caddy Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • C. Neil Strait Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bob Wells Look around. There are no enemies here. There's just good, old-fashioned rivalry.
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  • William Shakespeare Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Vic Braden Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.
    Vic Braden
    American tennis player (1929 - 2014)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • John Ciardi Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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