Oldest Quotes - page 2

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it-lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew! (Rudyard Kipling)
The two oldest professions in the world - ruined by amateurs. View quote
Alexander Woollcott
It was one of the oldest tricks of mob-management: give them a hate figure. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. View quote
William Blake
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature. View quote
Ivan Pavlov
The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it-just to name it-must have been like trying to catch something invisible. View quote
Nicole Krauss
Ones oldest friend is the best. View quote
Plautus
My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that. View quote
Nathan Lane
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. (Hannah Arendt)
Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it's no wonder. We're storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation? View quote
Brian Greene
Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself ... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role. View quote
Thomas Szasz
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long. View quote
William Shakespeare
There is no coherent knowledge, i. e. no uniform comprehensive account of the world and the events in it. There is no comprehensive truth that goes beyond an enumeration of details, but there are many pieces of information, obtained in different ways from different sources and collected for the benefit of the curious. The best way of presenting such knowledge is the list - and the oldest scientific works were indeed lists of facts, parts, coincidences, problems in several specialized domains. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. View quote
Frank Herbert
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts. View quote
Karl Popper
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. View quote
Aldo Leopold
My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. View quote
Tim Robbins
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. (John Jakes)
I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people. View quote
Larry King
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. View quote
Michael Fox
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. View quote
Ann Brashares
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. View quote
Kay Ryan