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Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Change, Child

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

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham

Life, Die, Grow

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

Philosophy, Means, Practice

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Liberty, Brave, Makes

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

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

Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
Jose Mourinho

Good, Christmas, Father

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
Billy Graham

Age, Problems, Confess

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

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

Men, Beautiful, Away

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'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

I'm too old to be a yuppie.
Hillary Clinton

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

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.
John D. Rockefeller

Time, Thought, Study

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

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Lord Chesterfield

Age, Fear, Liar

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
Oliver Goldsmith

Love, Everything, Friends

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman

Behind, Fools, Front

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

Playing, Grow, Quit

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

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

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

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

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 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

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

Life, Age, Become

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Money, Remember, Forgetting

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