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No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. — Bernard Williams
Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old… — Benjamin Franklin
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through… — Thomas Jefferson
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again. — Mignon McLaughlin
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. — Robert Breault
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. — Plutarch
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. — Jonathan Swift
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any… — Robert Breault
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their… — George D. Prentice
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems — Billy Joel
Always have old memories, and young hopes. — Arsene Houssaye
Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended. — Colley Cibber
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! — George Eliot
There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We… — Al Gore
When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry. — P.J. O'Rourke
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.... — Frederick Douglass
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and… — T. Harv Eker
The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn… — Llewellyn Rockwell
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense… — Milton Friedman
Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and… — Harry Browne
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is… — Thomas Sowell
‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that… — Susan L. Taylor
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged… — Abraham Lincoln
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow… — Douglas MacArthur

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