quotes

048:
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand."
George Eliot

047:
"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
Robert Service

046:
"Who hath desired the Sea? - the sight of salt water unbounded -
The heave and the halt and the hurl and the crash of the comber wind-hounded?."
Rudyard Kipling The Sea and the Hills

045:
"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks."
Edgar Lee Masters

044:
"Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned."
Homer

043:
"What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wilderness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wilderness and wet;
Long live the weeds and wilderness yet."
Gerard Manley Hopkins

042:
"...respectable people are the ... ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
John Updike

041:
"We shall meet, but we shall miss him.
There will be one vacant chair."
Henry Stevenson Washburn

040:
"Where the pools are bright and deep,
Where the grey trout lies asleep,
Up the river and o'er the lea,
That's the way for Billy and me."
James Hogg, A Boys Song

039:
"Bridges were made for wise men to walk over and fools to ride over."
J Ray, English Proverbs 1670

038:
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."
Samuel Johnson

037:
"A Foil'd circuitous wanderer - till at last
The long'd-for dash of waves is heard."
[Matthew Arnold]

036:

"Cold weather and crafty knaves come out of the north."
[J. Howell, Proverbs, 1659]

035:

"A chieftain to the Highlands bound
Cries 'Boatman do not tarry!
And I'll give thee a silver pound
To row us o'er the ferry.'"
[Thomas Campbell]

034:
"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
[Kenneth Grahame]

033:

"Gray hair is God's graffiti."
[Bill Cosby]

032:

"My own adventures are restricted chiefly to making swift progress toward growing into a little old man, you know, with wrinkles and a tough beard and a number of false teeth, and so on."
Vincent Van Gogh

031:

"I Shall Return."

Douglas MacArthur

030:

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. "
George Burns

029:

'Old is when you can say what you mean. Do what you like.'
- Leslie Thomas

028:

'My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.'
- Ellen DeGeneres

027:

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.": Steven Wright

026:

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

025:

"This was a gentleman no longer young, of a stiff and portly appearance, and a cautious and sour countenance."

(Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment)

024:

I'm counting on my old age, it will average me."
Ingress

023:
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

022:
Till the Devil whispered behind the trees
'It's pretty but is it art?'

[Rudyard Kipling]

021:
'O for a beaker full of the warm South.''
[John Keats.]

020:
'The absent are always kept in the dark.''
[Old Proverb.]

019:
'If all be true that I do think,
There are five reasons we should drink:
Good wine - a friend - or being dry -
Or lest we should be by and by -
Or any other reason why.''
[Henry Aldrich.]

018:
'It is often the young and inexperienced who are most prone to race blindly ahead, regardless of whether there may be a necessary change of direction decided by the leader. Therefore firm discipline may be necessary to curb impetuosity that will otherwise unduly string out the party, or may result in people becoming seperated from the group.'
[F. W. Halls, Bushwalking, Rigby, 1978, p. 9.]

017:

"The flowers, anew, returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring."
[Ambrose Philips, The First Pastoral, 55.]

016:
"... any Sydney citizen has a mental image of the kind of person you are likely to be, if you say you live in Double Bay, St Ives or Granville."
[Jan Morris, Sydney, Viking 1992. p.77.]

015:

There was an old codger named Smutty
Who was decrepit and just a bit Nutty

His behaviour bizzare
He fell asleep at the bar

And was bounced out in the Street on his butty.
The Prez

014:
"I will hold my house in the high Wood,
Within a walk of the sea,
And the men that were boys when I was a boy
Shall sit and drink with me."
Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, The South Country

013: "And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song."
Luther

012: "Golf is a good walk spoiled."
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

011: "Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
[Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)]

010: "My hat and wig will soon be here - they are upon the road."
[William Cowper]

009: "I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life."
[Wellington]

008: "It is not white hair that engenders wisdom."
[Menander]

007: "For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors to my blood."
[Shakespeare, As You Like It, iii, 48.]

006: ""An old man never wants a tale to tell."

[Old proverb.]

005: "There are black sheep in every flock."
[19th Century proverb.]

004: "... What find you better or more honourable than age?
Take the pre-eminence of it in everything:
in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
[Shackerly Marmion]

003: We're Young again tho' we're very old.
[Seventies popular song?]

002: "If youth knew what age would crave,
it would both get and save."
[J. Ray, English Proverbs]

001: "How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease."
[Oliver Goldsmith]