The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
Michael J. Fox

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
Derek Bok

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.
Burleigh Grimes

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
Frederick Pollock

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.
Pythagoras

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
Arthur Levitt

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?
Anne Rice

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Denis Kearney

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
Edward G. Rendell

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.
Greil Marcus

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
Yasser Arafat

When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Temple

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
Denis Kearney

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
Louis Nizer