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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher

Best, Wisdom, Past

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Victor Hugo

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry Pratchett

Alone, Brave, Makes

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience, Wisdom, Folly

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher

Heart, Head, Forever

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dreams, True, Stop

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison

Art, Mind, Value

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

Working, Wish, Keep

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury

Great, Book, Egypt

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan

Women, Men, Food

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon

Men, Evil, Easy

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea Ballou

Age, Youth, Fifty

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
George Eliot

Love, Words, Friends

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Thomas Carlyle

Work, Age, Done

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
Chinua Achebe

Words, Speak, Sweetness

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry Rollins

Time, Great, Men

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
Paulo Coelho

Good, Idea, Days

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Great, Everything

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
Al Lopez

Life, Love, Best

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.
Andy Rooney

Word, Meaning, Vegetarian

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats

Love, Truth, Die

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

Age, Struggle, Regret

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
Victor Hugo

May, Him, Friends

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.
Victor Hugo

Put, Dictionary, Cap

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
Spike Milligan

Keep, Year, Body

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz

Heart, Find, Place

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
Carroll O'Connor

Character, Down, Again

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney

Life, Long, Living

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Soren Kierkegaard

Dreams, Age, Youth

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men, Grow, Force

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