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The Four Stages of Public Opinion
I (Just after publication): The novelty is absurd
and subversive of Religion and Morality.
The propounder both fool and knave.
II (Twenty years later): The Novelty is absolute Truth
and will yield a full and satisfactory
explanation of things in general -
The propounder a man of sublime genius and perfect virtue.
III (Forty years later): The Novelty won't explain
things in general after all, and therefore is a wretched failure.
The propounder a very ordinary person advertised by a clique.
IV (A century later): The Novelty a mixture of truth and error.
Explains as much as could reasonably be expected.
The propounder worthy of all honor
in spite of his share of human frailties,
as one who has added to the permanent possessions of science.
- Thomas Henry [T. H.] Huxley
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
I confessed recently to an old friend,
"I realized I was looking at you,
in your visit, through old glasses.
Speaking old words.
Telling old stories.
I realize that in my life I've made so many
physical changes and I need to give my spirit time to catch up."
Time for my spirit to look at my friend
through the new glasses of current life experiences.
Old friends are precious.
They become even more treasured when they are wrapped
in the currentness of life experiences
and not relegated to the past in which they once lived.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
- William Butler Yeats
"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
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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