Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "O" » old person
«Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch.»
Author: Dr. David Allman
| Keywords:
confinement, Death sentence, Good Life, old person, sentenced to death, solitary, solitary confinement, The Grave
«We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely? change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.»
Author: George Sheehan
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, due, due to, involved, old person, preference, The New, wanting, willpower
«A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, big or small, young or old. He doesn't care if you're not smart, not popular, not a good joke-teller, not the best athlete, nor the best-looking person. To your dog, you are the greatest, the smartest, the nicest human being who was ever born. You are his friend and protector.»
Author: Louis Sabin
| About:
Dogs,
Friendship
| Keywords:
athlete, better-looking, joke, old person, popular, rich person, small person, smart, smartest, teller, tellers, The N
«Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.»
Author: Virginia Satir
(Educator, Phychologist)
| Keywords:
accommodate, accommodated, accommodates, accommodating, Body Parts, calls, competence, creative person, developed, develops, discarding, discards, humanely, keeping, manifest, manifesting, old person, picture, Real part, risks, situation, The New Year, useful, values
«There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
childhood, delude, deluded, deludes, deluding, existed, inhabits, old age, old person
«Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
breakfast, die down, floss, flossing, get in, gums, old person, stupid person, teeth
«Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.»
Author: Arnold Bennett
| Keywords:
approximately, average, culture, old man, old person, social, supposed, surely
«When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
able, age, Age to Age, come of age, converse, conversed, converses, conversing, else, into, marriage, married person, marrying, old, old age, old person, question, transitory, well
«I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Father, grave, gravely, meditated, meditating, old person, persons, suppose, themes
«But there is not a passage in the Old Testament that speaks of a person, who, after being crucified, dead, and buried, should rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
ascend, ascends, buried, buries, burying, crucified, crucifying, dead person, old person, Old Testament, passage, speaks, testament, testaments, The Dead
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
