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“There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.”

Source: Starship Troopers

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm filled with music, As choirs of summer birds, I cannot sing the old songs-- I do not know the words.”

Knows Wells Song Sleep Summer Bird Filled Familiar Tunes Compelling Cradle Choir Old Song

Author:Robert Jones Burdette

“I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.”

I Can Remember Song Lows Can Not Old Song

Book:Fly leaves, by C.S.C.

Source: Fly leaves, by C.S.C.

“No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.”

Heart Dream Song Vision Fantasy Air Broken Delicious Castles Old Song Castles In The Air

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.”

Heart Age School Young Song Driven Old Song

Book:Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own

“Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar.”

Song Sides Sea Mountain Folks Familiar Hills Followers Old Song

Author:Robert E. Howard

“I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.”

Thinking Helping Song Gone Folks Make You Think Folk Music Old Song Times Gone By

Author:Pete Seeger

“Now any person who plays an acoustic guitar standing up on stage with a microphone is a folk singer. Some grandmother with a baby in her arms singing a 500-year-old song, well, she's not a folk singer, she's not on stage with a guitar and a microphone. No, she's just an old grandmother singing an old song. The term "folk singer" has gotten warped.”

Years Wells Persons Play Song Term Stage Baby Arms Singing Standing Guitar Folks Singers Grandmother Acoustics Microphones Acoustic Guitar Old Song

Author:Pete Seeger

“I thought of my father's wisdom, as though it were buried in a box under a tree. As in the old song - a gold box with a silver pin. Some day I should be grown up, and I should dig up the box and turn the pin.”

Should Song Turns Father Tree Gold Boxes Silver Buried Adulthood Pins Old Song

Author:Mary Butts

“Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.”

Long Song Loss Fashion Grew Sentimentality Sweetheart Old Song

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”

People Needs Believe Persons Song Coffee Breathing Shops Sunset Airplane Invitations Passports Road Trip Coffee Shop New Songs Old Song Need Coffee

Book:If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For

Source: If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For