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Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company. — William Shakespeare
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when… — Dalai Lama
Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how… — Charles Darwin
The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early… — Charles Darwin
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell… — Marquis de Sade
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap… — Arthur Rimbaud
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. — Mason Cooley
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. — Frederick Buechner
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another… — O. Henry
All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, and thy pains sit bright on thee. All thy sorrows here shall shine and thy sufferings… — Richard Crashaw
The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his… — Walt Whitman
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... — Napoleon Bonaparte
There's many a good tune played by an old banjo. — Anthony Hopkins
Getting old ain't for the faint of heart. — Anthony Hopkins
A man's body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever. — Michael Caine
It's a wonderful thing as time goes by, to be with someone who looks into your face when you've gotten old and still sees what… — James Cromwell
Everything gets old if you do it often enough. — Ellen Burstyn
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old. — Elizabeth Janeway
What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps… — William Shakespeare
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head… — William Shakespeare
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by… — Mary Catherine Bateson
I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions… — Alexis de Tocqueville
To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen… — Charles Dickens
Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from… — David Lloyd George
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment — David Lloyd George

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