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The American flag, Old Glory, standing tall and flying free over American soil for 228 years is the symbol of our beloved country. It is… — Jeff Miller
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done. — John Keats
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. — Mignon McLaughlin
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old. — Mark Twain
The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty… — Abraham Lincoln
Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old… — Rajneesh
I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford. — George Best
There's never a new fashion but it's old. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating… — T.D. Jakes
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old. — Saint Augustine
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied… — A A Milne
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the… — Charles Darwin
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of… — Douglas Coupland
What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only… — Friedrich Nietzsche
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no… — Goran Ivanisevic
And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers - I'll never forget - and pick up his… — Arthur Miller
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building… — Dee Hock
To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a… — Isaac Mizrahi
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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