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Old Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
- 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…
- The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.
- The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;…
- There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;…
- If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of…
- It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
- All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left…
- It is a splendid thing to think that the woman you really love will never grow old to you. Through the wrinkles of time, through…
- The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not…
- Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from…
- The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future
More Old Quotes
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- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
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- 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
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- 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