Old Quotes
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
Roy H. Williams
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I'm too old to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
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“I love old things. Modern things are so cold. I need things that have lived.”
Barbara Hulanicki
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Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.
Erich Kastner
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Old age is the verdict of life.
Amelia Barr
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You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
Catherynne M. Valente
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen
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My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.
Andy Barrie
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It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.
Monica Seles
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By all means, then, let us have psalms and days of dedication anew to the old causes
Charles Reznikoff
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There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
John Brunner
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
Annie Elizabeth Delany
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The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
Arnold Ross
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We’ve always been a really good Rock band live and we still have that. I don’t know how much longer we’re going to have it because we’re all getting a little bit old.
John Dolmayan System Of A Down
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There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.
Steve Jobs
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I don’t like telling people telling how old I am.
Gazzy Garcia
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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Franz Kafka
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When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
Ruth Gordon
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Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.
Walt Disney
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The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
Judy Horacek
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Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
Stephen Ambrose
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
Isaac Newton