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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

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Deepak Chopra

Death, Thinking, Whole

Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.
Dolly Parton

Someone, Enough, Put

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Lin Yutang

Home, Travel, Beautiful

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

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats

Sleep, Deep, Book

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
Phyllis Diller

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

Down, Else, Getting

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Philosophy, Means, Practice

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

Understand, Why, Ideas

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
T. S. Eliot

Him, Forsaken, Forsake

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.
Will Estes

Romantic, Nice, Stuff

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
William Butler Yeats

Men, Beautiful, Away

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Playing, Grow, Quit

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

Love, Young, Used

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

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath

Heart, Deep, Took

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Age, Tell, Interested

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois

Time, Bad, Busy

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.
Ron White

Dad, Used, Driving

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

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

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott

Life, Success, Work

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Age, Blessing, Abundance

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Another, American, Himself

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Politics, Political, Winning

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

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs

Beautiful, Light, Last

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Ray Bradbury

Book, Friends, Dead

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