| "The light of the stars that were extinguished ages AGO still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries AGO, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "When a man you like switches from what he said a year AGO, or 4 years AGO, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "Nothing is as far away as one minute AGO." »Jim Bishop |
| "You know, it was only a generation AGO that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard." »Ronald Reagan |
| "Youth is something very new twenty years AGO no one mentioned it." »Coco Chanel |
| "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year AGO." »Bernard Berenson |
| "If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year AGO today." »Rotarian |
| "I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years AGO." »Will Rogers |
| "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century AGO" »Bernice Fitz-Gibbon |
| "If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years AGO." »William Hazlitt |
| "Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long AGO to do one thing while thinking about another." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries AGO." »Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett |
| "I cast my bread on the waters long AGO. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long AGO... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands." »Henry Havelock Ellis |
| "What is a husband He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long AGO. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him." »Alan Marshall Beck |
| "Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years AGO." »Horace Mann |
| "There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long AGO." »Julius Robert Oppenheimer |
| "Long AGO we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers." »US Supreme Court |
| "I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years AGO, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world." »Russell Baker |
| "Fourscore and seven years AGO our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long AGO men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better." »Native American |
| "In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long AGO." »Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long AGO." »Rudyard Kipling |
| "Many years AGO, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe." »Herbert Clark Hoover |
| "Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century AGO. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother." »Ronald Reagan |
| "People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long AGO, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman." »Erma Bombeck |
| "It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute AGO." »Jim |
| "History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks AGO of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil." »Robert Joseph Bob Dole |
| "Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years AGO, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision." »Penn Jillette |
| "Fourscore and seven years AGO our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." »Abraham Lincoln |
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