Quotes with old-timers

Quotes 561 till 580 of 903.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Gates Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
    The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Beth Ditto Some makeup companies have really good recycling policies, and it's worth finding out whether your favourites are among them. With MAC, for instance, you can take any of your old makeup containers into its shops, and the sweetest deal is that, once you've racked up six containers, you get a free lipstick or lip gloss.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Alexander Pope Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Hambly Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'
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  • Butch Trucks Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Camille Paglia Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Philip Roth Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Lillian Carter Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Brad Bird Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Beatrix Potter Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
    Beatrix Potters Letters
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Sir Richard Steele That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Martin Luther King That old law about ''an eye for an eye'' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Michael Harrington That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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