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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.


Bernard M. Baruch

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PHILIP ZALESKI Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is mo...
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CAPTAIN J. BROWN Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
ANITA BROOKNER Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the m...
BIBLE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
F. H. BRADLEY The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to s...
AUGUST KROGH Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. HARDY He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitabl...
ÉMILE ZOLA The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negr...
IDA B. WELLS Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have.
LORRIN L. LEE Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha...
LORRIN L. LEE Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who...
ROALD DAHL Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead.
JON CARROLL I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I beli...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause
PORTUGUESE PROVERB The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they ...
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
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ARTHUR ANDERSON Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...
GERMAINE GREER Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased...
GERMAINE GREER Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch.
BERNARD M. BARUCH I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship an...
TAYLOR BRANCH We should not be afraid of change, we should return to the old ideas.
ALEX TURNER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to...
WILKIE COLLINS No child, no matter what path they may have chosen, should be abandoned by the people who should lov...
S.L. JENNINGS I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Old women should not seek to be perfumed
ARCHILOCHUS Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
ARCHILOCHUS I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, ...
GIACOMO CASANOVA I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...
HERMANN HESSE My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down -- but there are more old drunks than there are ol...
WILLIE NELSON He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one o...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be r...
OSCAR WILDE Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE.
LORRIN L. LEE The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
R. SCOTT BAKKER Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
JOINERIANA Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
RAINER MARIA RILKE Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.
C.J. LANGENHOVEN Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen
SAMUEL PATERSON It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Natur...
MARY WORLEY MONTAGU One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's ol...
OSCAR WILDE One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B...
F. H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, B...
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answere...
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BOB GALLAGHER I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nucl...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD No parking will be allowed on Old Hope Road. We'll have wrecking service available to tow away vehic...
LINVAL BAILEY I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and lear...
JOHN MADDEN There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have bec...
AL MADRIGAL Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old? ... No. I should have closer control over my child than...
STEPHEN BAKER Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
ERNEST HEMINGWAY GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON In controversy one feels anger, one ceased to be in his true sense, ceased to strive for just point ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old...
WILLIE NELSON He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.
ROBERT MOSES He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy
ROBERT MOSES You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a...
ANNE ROIPHE Kid's books should be just as good as any other books. No. They should be held to a *higher* standar...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one...
OSCAR WILDE I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a c...
RICHARD LAMM And the combat ceased, for want of combatants.
PIERRE CORNEILLE A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
WILLA CATHER They are shutting down that quarry. They have ceased operations there.
JIM OLIVER We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
KARL POPPER You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
ALBERT EINSTEIN I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in ...
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BARUCH SPINOZA Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absu...
BARUCH SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, co...
BARUCH SPINOZA I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion
BARUCH SPINOZA Hatred is increased by being reciprocated, and can on the other hand be destroyed by love. Hatred wh...
BARUCH SPINOZA I advise you to think, ask around and consult other people.
BARUCH MARZEL Sharon stabbed us in the back. We have no time to pray for Sharon or to feel pain for Sharon. We are...
BARUCH MARZEL We aren't praying for this evil person. He went against God. He went against the Bible. He betrayed ...
BARUCH MARZEL Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
BARUCH SPINOZA It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when...
BARUCH SPINOZA Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself
BARUCH SPINOZA We feel and know that we are eternal
BARUCH SPINOZA Self - complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause
BARUCH SPINOZA God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things
BARUCH SPINOZA