Quotes 761 till 780 of 1807.
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
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It is not well to make great changes in old age.
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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.
Source: "American Opinion, Volume 12" (Robert Welch, Inc., 1969), p. 264. Also in: "Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask" (Western Islands, -
It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott. There's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career.
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It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
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