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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham
You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is. — Tom Jones
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself. — Thomas a Kempis
Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and the old sheep. — Miguel de Cervantes
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. — Robert Frost
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease. — Henry James
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. — Mark Twain
Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we're 30 years old, we don't have a… — Cindy Crawford
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. — James Russell Lowell
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen
That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body. — Aristotle
They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I… — George Carlin
You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had… — George Carlin
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a… — Charles Caleb Colton
At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but… — Louisa May Alcott
The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,… — P.J. O'Rourke
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. — Heinrich Heine
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say… — Abraham Lincoln

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