old quotes

“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.”

— Jonathan Swift

“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.”

— Helen Keller

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.”

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

— Isaac Asimov

“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

— Roger Zelazny

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.”

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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty.
Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace.
Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.
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“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.”

— John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.”

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. ”

— John Lennon

“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.”

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ”

“Education is the best provision for old age. ”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ”

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ”

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