Old
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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you — and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.
I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
I always complain because I'm old now and everything hurts.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger'. Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
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