Oldest Quotes

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. (Pythagoras)

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

H. P. Lovecraft

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Susan Sontag

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

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for 300 years.

Oscar Wilde

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

In science, read, by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

Yasser Arafat

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. (Plutarch)

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ken Burns

But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.

John Donne

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

Richard Wagner

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.

Susan Sontag

I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

Ernest Gellner

I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits."

Norman Mailer

Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.

Daniel Levitin

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

P. G. Wodehouse

Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.

Sherwood Anderson

I must be the oldest living child soprano. (Kathryn Grayson)

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.

Stanislaw Ulam

Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.

Phil Plait

I'm the oldest antique in town.

Norman Rockwell

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

Sri Chinmoy

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