Quotes with old-timers

Quotes 821 till 840 of 903.

  • William Somerset Maugham When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joyce Carol Oates When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
    Joyce Carol Oates
    American writer (1938 - )
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  • Brit Hume When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Bram Stoker Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Campbell Brown While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Willa Cather Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Abigail Van Buren Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Armstrong Williams With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Francis Bacon Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Mae West Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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