Worn Quotes

525 Worn quotes by 439 unique authors

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt. — Mark Twain
The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski… — Terry Pratchett
Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could… — Johnny Cash
His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any… — Arthur Golden
My life is like my shoes, worn out by service. — Spencer W. Kimball
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship. — Dorothy Parker
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to… — Hunter S. Thompson
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I… — Henry David Thoreau
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him — Baroness Orczy
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Comfort me from wherever you areâ€“alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him… — Sarah Dessen
Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a… — Neil Gaiman
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. — Ernest Hemingway
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too… — Albert Camus
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or… — Henry David Thoreau

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