« All Olden Quotes · Edward Hoagland's Page

Olden Quotes by Edward Hoagland

1 Olden quote by Edward Hoagland

Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they…

More Quotes by Edward Hoagland

Edward Hoagland has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising…
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long…
Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they…
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and…
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or…
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her…
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is…
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway…

See all 39 quotes by Edward Hoagland »

More Olden Quotes

Popular Olden quotes from across the collection:

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured… — Leonard Bernstein
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to… — Michael Bloomberg
In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out… — Jeremy Clarkson
You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the… — Unknown Author
In olden times, when wishing still helped... — Jacob Grimm
Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing… — Jimi Hendrix
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone… — Cole Porter
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. — Alfred Marshall
If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would… — Jack Handey
And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still… — Max Ehrmann
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and… — Gustave Courbet

See all Olden Quotes »

Browse Edward Hoagland Quotes by Category