Quotes with old-world

Quotes 3641 till 3660 of 3762.

  • Oliver Goldsmith You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Samuel Johnson Young men have more virtue than old men, they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Joseph Addison Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
    Cato
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Homer Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Augustus Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
    Augustus
    Roman emperor (63 - 14)
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  • Allen Klein Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Carl Honore Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Busy Philipps Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Earl Nightingale Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Francis Picabia Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Carolyn Wells Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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