Hoary Quotes

20 quotes by 20 authors

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we… — H. P. Blavatsky
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. — Mary Wollstonecraft
In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even,… — Thomas Guthrie
The ideal of a perfectly functioning democracy is one person, one vote; the ideal of a perfectly functioning market is one dollar, one vote.It's a… — Dorothy L. Sayers
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or… — John Dryden
Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and… — Camille Paglia
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.… — Adin Ballou
Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even… — Steve Lopez
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great… — Albert Pike
Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All… — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But… — Robert Montgomery
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he… — James Fallows
Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing… — Sean O'Casey
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old?… — Thomas Hood
Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the… — Edgar Wilson Nye
When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly. — Simon Blackburn
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Natureâ€™s geometric signs, In… — John Greenleaf Whittier
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes… — Rafael Yglesias

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