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Old Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many…
- I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
- Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old…
- Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those…
- That grand old poem called Winter
- The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly…
- The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is…
- We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that…
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know…
- Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of…
- I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but…
- For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers…
- If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let…
- None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I…
- The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as…
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe