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The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the… — Omar Khayyam
You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you… — O. Henry
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park… — Carl Sagan
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the… — H. L. Mencken
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be… — C.S. Lewis
We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into bondage to our… — Robert D. Brinsmead
What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the… — George Eliot
Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidney. I'm so tired. But when you're having dinner with your… — Gwyneth Paltrow
Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave. — Samuel Hoffenstein
All mothers are rich when they love their children. There are no poor mothers, no ugly ones, no old ones. Their love is always the… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about… — Robert Browning
It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow… — Al McGuire
Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and… — Marianne Williamson
Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not… — Adolf Hitler
The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is… — Albert Einstein
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jesus was not a whisperer. No one ever saw Him close to His neighbor's ear, looking stealthily around lest some one should overhear what He… — Samuel Logan Brengle
When you play spin the bottle, if they don't want to kiss you they have to give you a quarter. Well, hell, by the time… — Phyllis Diller
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish… — James Madison
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. — Sun Tzu
There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one. — Michael Penn
Soon I will be an old, white-haired lady, into whose lap someone places a baby, saying, "Smile, Grandma!" - I, who myself so recently was… — Liv Ullmann
Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were… — Lois Wyse

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