“ Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
“ The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. ”
- Edward Chapin- Copy
“ As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
“ I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them five years. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. ”
- Samuel Goldwyn- Copy
“ Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases — it was the outpouring of the heart. ”
- Herbert Lockyer- Copy
“ We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
“ The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
“ Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order. ”
- Spike Milligan- Copy
“ Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit; For the day never comes when it'll du To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
“ With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. ”
- Thomas Hood- Copy
“ As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find. ”
- Samuel Daniel- Copy
“ I have been a soldier, Till the helm hath worn those aged temples bare. ”
- Thomas Middleton- Copy
“ I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running. ”
- Larry Wall- Copy
“ Every time I won the Grand Slam for the first time, it's more special than the others, and the ones behind that were not too shabby either. ”
- Ivan Lendl- Copy
“ A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that's never read. To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. ”
- Thomas Dekker- Copy
“ Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. ”
- Horatio Nelson- Copy
“ This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ I don't like your miserable, lonely single 'front name.' It is so limited, so meager. It has no versatility. It is weighted down with the sense of responsibility. It is worn threadbare with much use. It is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
“ I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block. ”
- Joanne Woodward- Copy
“ Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
“ I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wandering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them… ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
“ What, man! more water glideth by the mill That wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know: Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother, Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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