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  • Russell Baker People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer There's never a new fashion but it's old.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Budd Schulberg Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Anne C. Weisberg We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abraham Lincoln What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Joseph Addison Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Franz Kafka Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • William Blake ''I have no name:'' I am but two days old. ''What shall I call thee?'' I happy am, ''Joy is my name.'' sweet joy befall thee!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Caitlin Rose 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Larry Wolters A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.'
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  • Cass Sunstein A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Pindar A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Sir Richard Steele A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Wyndham Lewis A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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