Quotes with years-old

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 1807.

  • Carine Roitfeld When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Bram Stoker Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Campbell Brown While the rest of the cable news world moved to opinion, CNN allowed me to stay true to my hard-news roots and supported me with a true commitment to old-school journalism.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Abdul Kalam Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Willa Cather Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Abigail Van Buren Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Plautus Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Bill Maris With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Sir Philip Sidney With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Butch Trucks With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Armstrong Williams With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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