Quotes about Oldest

The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

And David was the youngest. The three oldest had followed Saul,

Pride is the oldest and commonest of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.

General Relativity supports what is one of the oldest formal arguments for the existence of a theistic God—the Cosmological Argument.

Mat felt the change upon himself. Now he was the oldest, and the longest memory was his. Now between him and the grave stood no other man. From here on he would find the way for himself.

Strife is life's oldest and most holy fundament.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.