Famous quotes containing the words private, property and/or act:
“Eddie: Who are you soldier?
Philip Marlowe: Marlowe’s my name. I’m a private detective.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.”
—Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932)
“Old age equalizes—we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)