Old Quotes
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I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an C man and that I cannot set the world afire.
William Wendt -
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
George Bernard Shaw
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It was a very traditional 19th-century house; very old and half the size
Claire Williams -
You a Catholic, Harry?” O’Neill asked. “I was. Can’t see it any more.” “You know something?” O’Neill offered after a pause. “Religion is for punks and old folks. When you’re a punk you need it because you don’t know any better and it straightens you up. And when you’re old you need it for comfort before you check out. But in between it’s no good.
Anton Myrer -
I'm too old to know everything.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!
Apostolos Doxiadis -
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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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
Isaac Newton -
I have come too late into a world too old.
Alfred de Musset -
When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
Robert Frost -
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
Wallace Stegner -
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 -
I don't want to redo what I've just done. I don't want to retread old ground.
David Michod
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison -
I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.
Johnny Gimble -
So come on inside, you’ll catch a cold. Oh, darling the storm will pass and we’ll grow old.
Dean Lewis -
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen -
When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
Ruth Gordon -
I want to start dating the man that I’m gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know I’m gonna be with. I don’t play any games. I’m too old for that. I’ve been there, I’ve been around the block.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
Stephen Ambrose -
Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
John Anthony Genzale -
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 -
I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.
Sara Paxton