"In war, our elders may give the orders...but……" — T.H. White
"In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight."
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80 Quotes by T.H. White
T.H. White has 80 quotes on this site.
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Aviators live by hours, not by days.
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one…
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You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of…
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The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only…
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Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust,…
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Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time,…
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Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness,…
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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be…
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The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his…
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you…
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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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More Elders Quotes
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one of 308 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
— Francis Bacon
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
— Henry Adams
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother,…
— Joseph Addison
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God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
— Anouk Aimee
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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by…
— Pearl S. Buck
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
— Pearl S. Buck
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable…
— Diablo Cody
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We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest…
— Yasser Arafat
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One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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