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Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
Related topics: Wisdom
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
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So far, this is the oldest I've been.
- George Carlin
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed,
the oldest problem in the relations between human beings,
and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem,
of what to say and how to say it.
- Edward R. Murrow
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate
the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Old is the new new.
- Anonymous
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