“ The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it. ”
- Dido Armstrong- Copy
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“ When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
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“ Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again. ”
- Ricardo Montalban- Copy
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“ I know elderly people who have so lived in their long lives. Today, they find great pleasure in each and every day. ”
- Loretta Young- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I see it as an elderly lady, who mutters away to herself in a corner, ignored most of the time. ”
- George Carey- Copy
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“ They are our storytellers - our elderly are meant to be those who share the secrets of wisdom and knowledge and life with our youth. ”
- Cameron Diaz- Copy
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“ The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. ”
- George Chapman- Copy
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“ When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth. ”
- Sarah Louise Delany- Copy
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“ You ought never to "sass" old people - unless they "sass" you first. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. ”
- John Webster- Copy
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“ It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God… ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts… ”
- Robert Fulghum- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly. ”
- Franklin Field- Copy
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“ A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 965
“ The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. ”
- William Manchester- Copy
- 231
“ The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age, one stands still and stagnates. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer. ”
- Andy Warhol- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ”
- Bernard Baruch- Copy
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