Oldest Quotes
320 quotes by 290 authors
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with…
— Hannah Arendt
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
— Alfred Austin
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
— Samuel Butler
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The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans…
— John Henrik Clarke
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery…
— Criss Angel
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem…
— Yasser Arafat
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So far, this is the oldest I've been.
— George Carlin
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is…
— Margaret Mead
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
— Louis Nizer
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War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.
— Smedley Butler
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
— Oscar Wilde
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I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the…
— LeBron James
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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that…
— Charles Lapworth
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it…
— Thomas Sowell
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I…
— Randy Moss
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My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our…
— Phil Mickelson
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My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and…
— Herbie Mann
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The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all…
— Richard E. Blackwelder
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