#old

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army. ↗

— Frederick II

#begin #remain #soldiers #them #think

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. ↗

— Jack Vance

#anything #big #enjoy #give #guess

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#day #feel #for the day #i #i feel

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#believe #certain #certain age #early #grows

My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. ↗

— Erik Estrada

#couple #did #generosity #grandfather #hand

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#atheist #back #crawl #dangerous #easiest

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#david #hands #hold #how #into

One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#best #careers #feel #making #music

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#chain #equal #exceptions #faith #hold