Old Woman Quotes - Page 2

• I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Glasses, Firsts

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• Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

  Lillie Langtry

  Photography, World, Want

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• Have you not often met poor old women who are most faithful to the pious recitation of the Rosary? You also must do all that you can to recite it with fervour. Get right down, at the feet of Jesus: it is a good thing to make oneself small in the presence of so great a God.

  Columba Marmion

  Jesus, Feet, Catholic

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• The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Careers

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• A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

  Stendhal

  Men, Years, Youth

  "The Charterhouse of Parma". Book by Stendhal, Ch. 23, 1839.

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• Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

  Bonaventure

  Love, Doctors, Theology

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• A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the stones, and the mason replied, "I am making stones." He asked a stone carver what he was doing. "I am carving a gargoyle." And so it went, each person said in detail what they were doing. Finally he came to an old woman who was sweeping the ground. She said. "I am helping build a cathedral." ...Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

  Amanda Bynes

  Kids, Years, People

  "Amanda Bynes Strips Down For Maxim ", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Death laughs when old women frolic.

  Publilius Syrus

  Laughing, Age, Old Age

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• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Gold, Coins

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

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• What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Bikinis, Doe

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• WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Women, League

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Always 'duty.' I am sick of the word. They are a lot of old blockheads in flannel vests and of old women with foot-warmers and rosaries who constantly drone into our ears 'Duty, duty!' Ah! by Jove! one's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Feet, Sick

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.195, Delphi Classics

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• I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Moscow, Want, Women Want

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• Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Paper, Pins, Interest

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• When I see young men and old women come out of the closet and face being called faggots and dykes and pariahs and betrayers of the family dream, then I am honored to be gay because I belong to a people who are proud.

  Arnie Kantrowitz

  Dream, Gay, Men

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• One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old woman listening attentively to his every word. And inspired by her eagerness to learn more about her God whom she loved so dearly, he said to the people: It is better to be this unlearned woman, loving God with all her heart, than the most learned theologian lacking love.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, People, Listening

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• Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

  Victor LaValle

  Undone, Displeasure

  Victor LaValle (2012). “The Devil in Silver: A Novel”, p.34, Spiegel & Grau

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• I learned a woman is never an old woman.

  Joni Mitchell

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• Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.

  William Braxton Irvine

  Girl, Running, Baby

  William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

  Selena Gomez

  Thinking, Years, Dresses

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• In my local newspaper, they had this advert: 'please look after your neighbours in the cold weather'. I live next door to this 84-year-old woman, and do you know, not once has she come round to see if I'm all right. The lazy cow hasn't even taken her milk in for a fortnight.

  Jack Dee

  Taken, Doors, Years

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• This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease!
  Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Science, Men, Garden

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• It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

  Tennessee Williams

  Dog, Loss, Terrible

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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