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He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. — Josiah Johnson Hawes
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man… — Samuel Ullman
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even… — Samuel Ullman
I put a flower in someone's locker when I was 15 years old. This girl, called Maria. Maybe I was 14. She actually thought it… — Robert Pattinson
Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability. — Sun Tzu
I mean come on. Do you know how easy it is to be famous these days? Do you have any idea? The web has made… — Corey Taylor
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly… — William O. Douglas
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. — William Shakespeare
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet… — William Shakespeare
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. — Norman Cousins
You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need. — Betty Friedan
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. — Unknown Author
I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the… — Gene Hill
We had a dog, Apples. He was 13 years old, toothless, blind and had the worst breath this side of Jabba the Hut. But he… — Marlee Matlin
We were impelled to remain loyal for a while to the memory of Penny. It was a form of the old fashioned custom of going… — Derek Tangye
An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is… — Jim Rohn
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. — Mignon McLaughlin
The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen… — James A. Baldwin
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill
How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf… — William Saroyan
I be yellin out money over everything, money on my mind then she wanna ask when it got so empty. Tell her I apologize, happened… — Drake
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively… — Arthur Kleinman
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an… — Erica Jong

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