Quotes with older

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  • Virginia Woolf The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jack Nicklaus The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Bill Medley The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I'll keep on keepin' on till I keel over.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Boy George The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Ben Rattray There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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  • Stephen Hawking There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Ovid Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
    The Observer, 21 August 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Lenny Bruce Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Adam Marshall We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
    Adam Marshall
    Australian politician (1984 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Anthony Holden Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Billy Graham When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Adriana Lima When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.
    Adriana Lima
    Brazilian model and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ben Stein When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Brandi Carlile When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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