Quotes with old-timers

Quotes 141 till 160 of 903.

  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • William Wordsworth But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Boris Johnson But here's old Ken - he's been crass, he's been insensitive and thuggish and brutal in his language - but I don't think actually if you read what he said, although it was extraordinary and rude, I don't think he was actually anti-Semitic.
    Quotes of the Day, The Times, 18 February 2005, p. 2.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Aeschylus But time growing old teaches all things.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bill Wyman But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Bono But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Burns By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Blaise Pascal Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Can it be that chance has made me one of those women so immersed in one man that, whether they are barren or not, they carry with them to the grave the shriveled innocence of an old maid?
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Adolf Loos Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Booth Tarkington Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Lydia M. Child Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Bob Dylan Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
    Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don't criticize
    What you can't understand
    Your sons and your daughters
    Are beyond your command
    Your old road is rapidly agin'.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Joan Rivers Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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