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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways. — Mac Davis
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind. — William Shakespeare
People, you see... are ruthless and foolish. When they're young, in order to have money and power, they give up everything like health and youth.… — Jae Hee
When I grew older, I thought I would become an even more special person. But, it's not true. I eat more and I know a… — Cheon Eunbi
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. — Hugo Gernsback
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look… — Eric Gurney
Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will… — Gerald Durrell
A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to… — James E. Myers
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
Nothing I do can't be done by a ten-year-old...with fifteen years of practice. — Harry Blackstone, Jr.
If you wait, you grow old, nothing more. — Walter Bargen
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the… — Unknown Author
An old medical friend gave me some excellent practical advice. He said: "You will have for some time to go much oftener down steps than… — William Crawford Williamson
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside… — Vash Young
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. — Richard Powers
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him… — Willie Morris
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog. — Doris Roberts
Another cat? Perhaps. For love there is also a season; its seeds must be resown. But a family cat is not replaceable like a wornout… — Irving Townsend
When does the loneliness of old age begin? — Janusz Korczak
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. — Lillian Gordy Carter
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. — Lynn Johnston

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