Quotes with old-age

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  • Bill Mumy It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • George Sand It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Tom Lehrer It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Amartya Sen It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Aeschylus It is always in season for old men to learn.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Maxwell Maltz It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Mark Twain It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leigh Hunt It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Luigi Pirandello It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Miller It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Emily Carr It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Marie Dressler It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
    Marie Dressler
    Canadian stage and film actress (1868 - 1934)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is not well to make great changes in old age.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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