A Quote by Bernard Baruch
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
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He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.
I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund.
Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.
He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;-
All things, in short, to which belong
The charm, the grace that Time
makes strong,
All these I prize, but (entre nous)
Old friends are best!
Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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