Quotes with old-age

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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Arthur J. Goldberg Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
    Arthur J. Goldberg
    American jurist and politician
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  • Alexander Pope Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robert Byrne Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Let nothing be called natural
    In an age of bloody confusion,
    Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
    And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
    Be held unalterable!
    Source: The Exception and the Rule
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Walt Whitman Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Mark Twain Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
    Woody Guthrie
     
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  • Eileen Caddy Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • C. Neil Strait Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Mark Twain Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francis Bacon Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Live your life and forget your age.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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