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  • Margaret Thatcher Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Eliza Cook Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Bob Balaban Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Felix Frankfurter Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Eric Hoffer 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
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Cato the Elder Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Old age is a shipwreck.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lawrence Durrell Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • André Maurois Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Fred Astaire Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Golda Meir Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Maurice Chevalier Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
    Maurice Chevalier
    French actor and comedian (1888 - 1972)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Leon Trotsky Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Old age is the verdict of life.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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