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Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms... — Simone Weil
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! — Alice James
When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income… — Kirk Kerkorian
In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do… — Violet Fane
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. — Thomas Jefferson
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… — Epicurus
Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel. — Herbert V. Prochnow
I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It… — Cristiano Ronaldo
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. — Andre Gide
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains,… — Mark Twain
Old Time the clock-setter. — William Shakespeare
Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes… — Unknown Author
A new year can begin only because the old year ends. — Madeleine L'Engle
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace
A new home by a gap in the Meng wall; Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left. Those who come in the… — Wang Wei
Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever,… — Sara Teasdale
The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young 'sow wild oats'; but when old, grow sage. — Henry James Byron
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is… — Maya Angelou
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. — Antonio Porchia
All that means is that I'll be 783 years old when I catch Scotty Bowman. — Kevin Constantine
Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable. — Conn Smythe
There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things. — Ed Belfour
There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days… — Bobby Clarke

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