Old quotes

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” Jonathan Swift

“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.” Jonathan Swift

“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.” Jonathan Swift

“Observation is an old man's memory.” Jonathan Swift

“What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.” Jonathan Swift

“Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.” Donald Trump

“The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.” Donald Trump

“I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.” Elizabeth Taylor

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.” Desmond Tutu

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.” Andy Warhol

“Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.” Andy Warhol

“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.” Virginia Woolf

“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.” Virginia Woolf

“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.” Virginia Woolf

“Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.” Virginia Woolf

“The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.” Virginia Woolf

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.” Virginia Woolf

“'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.” Walt Whitman

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.” Walt Whitman

“I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.” Walt Whitman

“Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.” Walt Whitman

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.” Alan Watts

“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.” Alan Watts

“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.” Alan Watts

“My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.” Adele

“I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.” Adele