Quotes with old-world

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  • Walt Whitman Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Babe Ruth [Written by Ruth in a St. Mary's hymnal, at the age of fifteen:] George H Ruth World's worse singer, world's best pitcher.
    Inscription in hymnbook
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Twas never merry world since lowly feigning was Galled compliment.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Groucho Marx A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • George Santayana A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • William S. Burroughs Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Voltaire All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Kin Hubbard All the world loves a good loser.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • John Hay All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
    John Hay
    American politician (1838 - 1905)
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  • Helen Keller Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bill Frist America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • Clive James Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Andrea Dworkin As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Be the change you want to see in the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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