Quotes with old-timers

Quotes 101 till 120 of 903.

  • Camille Paglia American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
    - +
     0
  • Bayard Taylor An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
    - +
     0
  • Plutarch An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Bresson An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
    - +
     0
  • Harry Houdini An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin An old young man, will be a young old man.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
    Business Review, Volume 22
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
    - +
     0
  • Bipasha Basu An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bret Harte And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,
    This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
    East and West Poems, Part I The Old Major Explains
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
    - +
     0
  • Barry McGuire And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
    - +
     0
  • Beau Bridges And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Edward Hoagland Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
    - +
     0
  • Aulus Gellius Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
    Aulus Gellius
    Roman author and grammarian
    - +
     0
  • Winston Churchill Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Marshall Mcluhan Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
    - +
     0
All old-timers famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 6)