“ But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other — instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. ”
- Edward Abbey- Copy
- 880
“ The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.1K
“ When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God… ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 1.9K
“ A young man married is a man that 's marr'd. - All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 413
“ In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 197
“ Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar. ”
- Channing Pollock- Copy
- 1K
“ When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck. ”
- Haruki Murakami- Copy
- 2.1K
“ What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
- 3.5K
“ When you are young you get blamed for crimes you never committed, and when you are old you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ”
- I.F. Stone- Copy
- 3.9K
“ By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young. ”
- Maggie Kuhn- Copy
- 2.9K
“ When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me (raw young pupil that I was) that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows. ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ”
- Michael Palin- Copy
- 2.3K
“ There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, "Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.". ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And always keep us so. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. ”
- Leonardo DiCaprio- Copy
- 102
“ It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders. ”
- Menander- Copy
- 4K
“ There was never an unused talent rolled up in a handkerchief yet, but when it was taken out and put into the scales, it was lighter than when it was committed to the keeping of the earth. ”
- Alexander Maclaren- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can. ”
- Cristiano Ronaldo- Copy
- 661
“ Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 274
“ The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 1.1K
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