Quotes 861 till 880 of 904.
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You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.
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You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.
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You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.
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Young men have more virtue than old men, they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
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Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; I old age is slow in both.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
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Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.
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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.
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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
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