Quotes with years-old

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 1807.

  • Saki The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Santayana The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Oscar Wilde The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sara Teasdale Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
    Sara Teasdale
    American lyric poet (1884 - 1933)
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  • Barney Frank There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her Elsie Fag.
    Source: Responding to Dick Armeys referring to him as Barney Fag, unidentified publication/date
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Campbell There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • François Rabelais There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Bette Davis There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Carlos Fuentes There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Bill Bryson There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Barry Took There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
    Barry Took
     
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  • Hubert Humphrey There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Dean William R. Inge There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Bill Hybels There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Sir William Temple There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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