generations quotes by JANE HADDAM-1509216262
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
generations quotes by GEORGE BURNS-1509214631
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
generations quotes by SUSAN SONTAG-1509212940
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
generations quotes by CLARENCE DARROW-1509211449
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
generations quotes by LEWIS MUMFORD-1509210239
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
generations quotes by MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN-1509207780
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
generations quotes by BENJAMIN DISRAELI-1509196813
A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.
generations quotes by MILTON GREENBLATT-1509178222
First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.
generations quotes by ADLAI STEVENSON-1509175425
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
generations quotes by JOHN J. WELSH-1509174125
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.
generations quotes by FROM THE MOVIEFIGHT CLUB-1509169130
We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
generations quotes by JOAN MCINTOSH-1509125314
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
generations quotes by BERNARD ROSENBERG-1509121874
Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd.
generations quotes by HOMER-1509119931
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
generations quotes by RAMSEY CLARK-1509115797
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
generations quotes by IGOR STRAVINSKY-1509114580
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
games quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1509113145
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
games quotes by KIMBERLY JONES-1509097525
I haven't had sex in eight months. To be honest, I now prefer to go bowling.
games quotes by LEMONY SNICKET-1509095833
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all
games quotes by INDIAN PROVERB-1509094613
Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.
games quotes by JOSEPH DE MAISTRE-1509092630
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
games quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1509089768
Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
games quotes by STEPHEN SONDHEIM-1509088207
The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution.
games quotes by EDWARD FITZGERALD-1509084709
'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,Where destiny with men for pieces plays;Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
games quotes by WILLIAM COWPER-1509038304
With spots quadrangular of diamond form,Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife,And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
games quotes by HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN-1509035012
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
games quotes by CLIVE JAMES-1509025927
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
games quotes by DON CARTER-1509013358
One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.
games quotes by A.A. MILNE-1509007376
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
gambling quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1508951409
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
gambling quotes by W.C. FIELDS-1508950025
Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.
gambling quotes by RICHARD BLACKMORE-1508948545
Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.
gambling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508946852
Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novies and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.
gambling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508940790
There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
gambling quotes by CHARLES LAMB-1508925689
A number of moralists condemn lotteries and refuse to see anything noble in the passion of the ordinary gambler. They judge gambling as some atheists judge religion, by its excesses.
gambling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1508911102
A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time.
gambling quotes by DAN BENNETT-1508861239
One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.
gambling quotes by HENNY YOUNGMAN-1508839502
I bet on a horse at ten-to-one. It didn't come in until half-past five.
gambling quotes by WILL ROGERS-1508831327
You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people.
gambling quotes by OWEN FELLTHAM-1508765937
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.
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