"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."

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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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"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."

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"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

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"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."

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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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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

"We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched."

"Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop."

"When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad."

"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it."

"He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again."

"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."

"Things forbidden have a secret charm."

"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt."

"Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir."