Old Quotes
15062 Old quotes by 7634 unique authors
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Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with…
— Ronald Reagan
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Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only…
— Alexander Pope
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
— Jonathan Swift
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
— Abraham Lincoln
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When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.
— Julie Andrews
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and…
— William Butler Yeats
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Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
— Lance Morrow
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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
— Willem Dafoe
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Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are…
— Woody Guthrie
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The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our…
— Rick Perry
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Arise, go forth, and conquer as of old.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're…
— Scottie Pippen
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We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills.…
— Winston Churchill
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Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts…
— Rupert Brooke
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Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'... but first, you…
— Dennis Miller
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel…
— Jack Vance
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Exeter City's trip to Old Trafford will be a great day for their fans but that is about it - they won't get the result…
— Mark Lawrenson
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What's the difference between a three-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining.
— Mike Ditka
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Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford…
— Charles Barkley
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