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Nostalgia combines regularly with manifest respectability to give credence to old error as opposed to new truth. — John Kenneth Galbraith

And then I played some music, old music, and it sounded awful, and I loved it, I loved it so much. — John Darnielle

(As a novelist, he was a little fussy about chronological order, a tad old-fashioned.) — John Irving

She was old and crankily conservative in the way only old liberals could be. — John Scalzi

It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once. — Peter St. John

Let's die of it before we're too old. — John Le Carre

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The mental and physical diseases we face in old age are tied together through the cardiovascular system and metabolic system. A — John J. Ratey

If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young. — John Lyly

There is no fool to the old fool. — John Heywood

The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs. — John Irving

I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that's a great thing to do. — John Raese

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. — John Le Carre

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son. — John Turturro

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get. — John Godfrey Saxe

He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer. — John Connolly

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy. — Jonathan Evison

The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay. — John Townsend Trowbridge

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs. — John Dewey

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. — John C. Reilly

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old. — John C. Hawkes

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling. — John Heywood

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. — John Cage

No plumbline could fathom the depths of my faithlessness !! LMS says this to the rector who comes in to visit him in hospital as an old man !! — John Francis Byrne

No one who is young is ever going to be old. — John Steinbeck

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while. — John Deacon

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old. — John Corbett

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential. — John Mackey

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. — John Dryden

God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything. — John Constantine

It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes

I'm a firm believer that there's no way that a six-year-old should have a helmet on and learn a tackling drill. — John Madden

Let the right one in Let the old dreams die Let the wrong ones go They cannot do What you want them to do - Morrissey, Let the Right One Slip In — John Ajvide Lindqvist

I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn? — John Hart

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job. — John Frankenheimer

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. — John Maynard Keynes

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. — John Green

There aren't many fathers around here ... If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up. — John Redwood

I was 23 years old. It was a wild time. I was covering everything that blew up - blackouts, Studio 54, son of Sam killer, and all of that stuff. — John Tesh

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices. — John Jewel

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old? — John Updike

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine. — John G. Stumpf

They make money the old fashioned way ... they earn it. — John Houseman

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. — John Mortimer

I'll bring pajamas " she said.
"Yeah? You have any idea how old I am?"
"Not nearly as old as you're gonna be by midnight. — John Sandford

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles. — John Powell

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves. — John Oates

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being ... — Olivia Newton-John

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle. — John Denver

In the old house, the past hung in the air like motes of dust waiting to be illuminated by the sharp rays of memory — John Connolly

My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first". — John Dingell

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old. — John McAfee

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. — John Bright

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain. — John Masefield

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; — John Keats

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born. — John Donne

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large. — John Milton

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest. — John Arlott

Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school ... — John Geddes

... there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old ... — John Irving

And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top — John Ajvide Lindqvist

Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow. — John Donne

Don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I — John Green

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. — John Burroughs

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. — John Wolcot

With Occam's old razor she could slit the throat of that idea. — John Crowley

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher. — John Wanamaker

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven — John Irving

All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else. — John Updike

I like how you sing that song. You sound like you're really old. — John McEuen

I never thought I'd be 52 years old. I don't think that anybody at 16 thinks like that. — John Waters

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. — John Logan

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. — John Dryden

I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay. — John Green

The spirit should never grow old. — John Kenneth Galbraith

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort. — John Caudwell

I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me. — John Green

It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits. — John Calvin

I believe you should be a gentleman, and that's old-fashioned. — John Schneider

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things — John Schuerholz

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them. — John Bunyan

If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire this old house would have burned down a long time ago — John Prine

Who would live in this rank old Paris if it was not for its gardens?" - John Sanderson — David McCullough

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood. — John Updike

That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb. — John Green

many people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. They — John C. Maxwell

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. — John Osborne

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning, — John Doerr

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! — John Green

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night. — John Milton

For you may palm upon us new for old:
All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold. — John Dryden

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves! — John Greenleaf Whittier

For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies. — John Edward Williams

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside. — John Wright

Through the chill of December the early winter moans ... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones. — John Facenda