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

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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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"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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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"What one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

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"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty."

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"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

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"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."

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"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."

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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."

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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."

"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."

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

Explore more quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don't expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty."

"If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you."

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them."

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."

"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."

"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."