Oldish Quotes

#1. Latimer Springfield was a rather cheerless, oldish young man, who went into politics somewhat in the spirit in which other people might go into half-mourning.

Saki

#2. Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

James Farley

#3. A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Norman MacCaig

#4. It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

Robert Hughes

#5. The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

Robert M. Pirsig

#6. We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

John Steinbeck

#7. The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#8. There's nothing more absurd than a connoisseur.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#9. Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief

Stephen Colbert

#10. I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Jessica Alba

#11. If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

Phil Crane

#12. Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available ...

Karen Traviss

#13. Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

T. Harv Eker

#14. Abram - Ibrahim, in the Arabic spelling - was the first to worship Allah, the one God, rather than the stars, the moon, or the sun.

Susan Wise Bauer

#15. I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.

Kanye West

#16. As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.

Boris Pasternak