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  • Philip Roth A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Linus Price Hayes A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; and to an old maid, charity.
    Linus Price Hayes
    American editor of VPI Skipper (1906 - 1962)
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  • Lord George Byron A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Miles Davis A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
    Miles Davis
    American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926 - 1991)
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  • Ben Folds A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Jean Rostand A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Lucille Ball A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    Source: inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Bertrand Piccard A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Ben Jonson A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A new untruth is better than an old truth.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Josh Billings A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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