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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.
Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies — a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult — my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.
Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That's what I see. That's the America I know!
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend — or a meaningful day.
