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Familiar Quotations

Aging

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.–Nelson Algren

It was government by discussion that broke the bond of ages and set free the originality of mankind.–George Baer

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.–Henry Ward Beecher

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.–Aneurin Bevan

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.–George Bush

The lapse of ages changes all things--time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.–Lord Byron

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.–E. H. Chapin

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in the purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.–E. H. Chapin

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.–Gilbert Chesterton

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.–Deepak Chopra

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Aging 1
• Aging – "Life" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Aging 4
• Aging – "Appears" 26
• Aging – "Best" 28
• Aging – "Boys" 28
• Aging – "Brave" 29
• Aging – "Building" 29
• Aging – "Carry" 30
• Aging – "Changed" 30
• Aging – "Character" 31
• Aging – "Children" 33
• Aging – "Come" 35
• Aging – "Country" 37
• Aging – "Dark" 38
• Aging – "Day" 39
• Aging – "Different" 41
• Aging – "Doubt" 43
• Aging – "Earlier" 44
• Aging – "Easy" 46
• Aging – "Eyes" 47
• Aging – "Far" 48
• Aging – "Felt" 50
• Aging – "Few" 50
• Aging – "Figure" 52
• Aging – "Follow" 52
• Aging – "Forms" 53
• Aging – "Found" 56
• Aging – "Friend" 58
• Aging – "Go" 58
• Aging – "Great" 59
• Aging – "Happier" 63
• Aging – "Having" 63
• Aging – "Head" 64
• Aging – "Hear" 65
• Aging – "History" 65
• Aging – "Human" 67
• Aging – "Imagine" 68
• Aging – "Lands" 69
• Aging – "Let" 70
• Aging – "Little" 70
• Aging – "Living" 72
• Aging – "Looked" 73
• Aging – "Man" 75
• Aging – "Means" 84
• Aging – "Mind" 85
• Aging – "Mother's" 86
• Aging – "Nature" 87
• Aging – "Number" 89
• Aging – "Old" 90
• Aging – "Once" 93
• Aging – "Opinions" 94
• Aging – "Order" 95
• Aging – "Parts" 96
• Aging – "Past" 97
• Aging – "People" 98
• Aging – "Period" 100
• Aging – "Person" 101
• Aging – "Philosophies" 102
• Aging – "Plain" 102
• Aging – "Poets" 103
• Aging – "Powers" 103
• Aging – "Process" 105
• Aging – "Real" 105
• Aging – "Reason" 106
• Aging – "Religion" 106
• Aging – "Remains" 107
• Aging – "Result" 108
• Aging – "Rocks" 109
• Aging – "Shown" 110
• Aging – "Side" 111
• Aging – "Simplicity" 112
• Aging – "Slavery" 112
• Aging – "Sooner" 113
• Aging – "Soul" 113
• Aging – "Spirit" 114
• Aging – "Spite" 114
• Aging – "Stand" 115
• Aging – "Stone" 116
• Aging – "Strange" 117
• Aging – "Strongly" 118
• Aging – "Sun" 118
• Aging – "Systems" 119
• Aging – "Tear" 119
• Aging – "Ten" 120
• Aging – "Thing" 121
• Aging – "Thinking" 122
• Aging – "Thus" 124
• Aging – "Times" 126
• Aging – "True" 128
• Aging – "Understand" 128
• Aging – "Virtues" 129
• Aging – "Woman" 129
• Aging – "Works" 132
• Aging – "World's" 133
• Aging – "Years" 134
• Aging – "Youth" 136
• Nonfiction Usage 138
• Lyrical Usage 138
• Script Usage 138
• Spoken Usage 138
• Presidential Usage 138
• Journalism Usage 138
• Legal Usage 198
• Governmental Usage 199
• Patent Usage 203
• Bibliographic Usage 265
• Encyclopedic Usage 344
• Lexicographic Usage 453
• Index 584