"I promise to keep on living as though……" — Douglas MacArthur

More Deserting Quotes

This quote is filed under Deserting Quotes, one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may… — Douglas MacArthur
• When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This… — Samuel Ullman
• Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living… — Douglas MacArthur
• We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and… — Edward R. Murrow
• Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
• I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true… — Igor Stravinsky
• Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a… — William McFee
• The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic. — Geraldo Rivera
• We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. — Edward R. Murrow
• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle… — Samuel Ullman
• Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover,… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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