"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Every old poem is sacred."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"Old foxes want no tutors."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."

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"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."

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"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."

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"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

"It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes."

"We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8."

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

"Every old poem is sacred."

"Old foxes want no tutors."

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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

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"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."

"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."

"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."

"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."

"Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right."

"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."