#old

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census. ↗

#effective #effective way #getting #good #more

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#always #everybody #feel #frankly #go

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#classics #literature #modern #newest #oldest

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#scaffold #throne #truth #wrong

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#color #conviction #experience #holds #only

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#criticized #old #old book #security #sense

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#disgrace #few #grace #history #last

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#because #bore #dull #frankly #hold

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. ↗