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Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is… — Mahatma Gandhi
I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink… — Sally Jessy Raphael
An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him. — Ambrose Bierce
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit… — Andre Tchelistcheff
A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said… — Henri Nouwen
Old teachers never die, they just grade away. — Henny Youngman
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — Michel de Montaigne
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans. — William Shakespeare
Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius
[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the… — C.S. Lewis
My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off… — Ozzy Osbourne
Well, back to the old drawing board. — Peter Arno
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we… — Kurt Vonnegut
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened." — Dale Carnegie
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up,… — Charles Spurgeon
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly,… — Gerald Heaney
How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a… — Gerald Heaney
Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong… — Charles Spurgeon
I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless… — Unknown Author
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative;… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul — Langston Hughes
I may add that the result of my 45 years of study of the Bible has led me all the time to a firmer faith… — Unknown Author
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old… — Henry David Thoreau
About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult… — Donald Bradman

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