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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
Related topics: Values
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
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.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
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
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 don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish 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
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
"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]
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
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
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
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
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
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
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 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
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
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
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