Quotation Explorer - 'Oldest'

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. - Kay Ryan
Rocks and minerals: the oldest storytellers. - A.D. Posey
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked. - Marty Rubin
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. - Samuel Butler
He was the strangest of strangers in that he was also her oldest friend. - Ann Brashares
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science. - P.D. Ouspensky
He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them. - Micheal Punke
Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. - Susan Sontag
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. - Thomas Sowell
Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest. - Michael Bassey Johnson
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. - Plutarch
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. - H.P. Lovecraft
My flute, M. Poirot, is my oldest companion. When everything else fails, music remains. - Agatha Christie
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man. - Louis Nizer
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. - Carlos Fuentes
God is the world's oldest poet; love is the world's oldest poem. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them. - Angela B. Chrysler
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. - Edward R. Murrow
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - H. P. Lovecraft
Live your life, take chances, be crazy. Dont wait 'cause right now is the oldest you've ever been & the youngest you'll be ever again - Suzanne Collins
I was born at a very early age. As I grew up, I got older... So far though, this is the oldest I've ever been. - Rebecca Hurley
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