Quotes on age
When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
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Cyril Connolly Quotes
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
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C. H. Quotes
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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.
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Thomas Wolfe Quotes
People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
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Martin Buxbaum Quotes
Youth is wasted on the young.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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Euripides Quotes
The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
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Jack Nicklaus Quotes
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
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George D. Prentice Quotes
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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Henry Graham Greene Quotes
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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Mark Twain Quotes
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
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William Allen White Quotes
I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.
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Dave Barry Quotes
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
Age considers; youth ventures.
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Rabindranath Tagore Quotes
You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
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Margaret Willour Quotes
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
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Edith Wharton Quotes
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
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Fay Weldon Quotes
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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Herbert Asquith Quotes
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
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Jean Rhys Quotes
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
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Mortimer Collins Quotes
Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
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Jennifer Yane Quotes
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
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Franklin Adams Quotes
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
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Charles Dickens Quotes
Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
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Daniel Defoe Quotes
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
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Franklin Adams Quotes
The years teach much which the days never knew.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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Tom Wilson Quotes
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
Don't laugh at the coffee. Some day you, too, may be old and weak.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
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Maurice Chevalier Quotes
In dog years, I'm dead.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
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Billy Casper Quotes
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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E. B. White Quotes
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
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Liz Smith Quotes
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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Ogden Nash Quotes
Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
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François La Rochefoucauld Quotes
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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Euripides Quotes
It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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Leon Trotsky Quotes
Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you
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Bennett Cerf Quotes
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
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Arnold Palmer Quotes
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
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G. Norman Collie Quotes
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.
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Jason Love Quotes
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
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John Fischer Quotes
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
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Allen Quotes
In a dream you are never eighty.
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Anne Sexton Quotes
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
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Author Unknown Quotes
There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
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I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast.
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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Chili Davis Quotes
I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
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Phyllis Diller Quotes
A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks.
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Mortimer Collins Quotes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
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Henry Ford Quotes
There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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P.G. Wodehouse Quotes
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
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Jim Fiebig Quotes
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
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T.S. Eliot Quotes
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.
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Vin Scully Quotes
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Henri Amiel Quotes
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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Ashley Montagu Quotes
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
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Douglas MacArthur Quotes
They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
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Rick Majerus Quotes
I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
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Sheila Kaye-Smith Quotes
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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Jean Rostand Quotes
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
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Unknown Author Quotes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
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Voltaire Quotes
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
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Charles Lamb Quotes
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
It takes a long time to become young.
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out.
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Author Unknown Quotes
You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
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Author Unknown Quotes
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
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J.B. Priestly Quotes
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
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Doug Larson Quotes
Everyone is the age of their heart.
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Guatemalan Proverb Quotes
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
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Bonnie Prudden Quotes
There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes
Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.
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Attributed to John Wagner Quotes
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.
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Douglas MacArthur Quotes
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
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Robert Southey Quotes
Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
I dream of hiking into my old age.
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Marlyn Doan Quotes
It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
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Seigneur de Saint-Evremond Quotes
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
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Brigitte Bardot Quotes
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
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Marty Bucella Quotes
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
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Emily Dickinson Quotes
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
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John Glenn Quotes
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
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Bob Hope Quotes
The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.
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L.S. McCandless Quotes
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
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Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
The last birthday that's any good is 23.
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Andy Rooney Quotes
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
The trick is growing up without growing old.
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Casey Stengel Quotes
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
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Mark Twain Quotes
I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
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Attributed to John Wagner Quotes
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
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Bob Wells Quotes
I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Bill Vaughan Quotes
Dear Ken, One of the sad things about old friends is that they seem to be getting older - just like you! 55 years old. Wow! That is really old. Thank goodness you have such a young, beautiful wife. Laura and I value our friendship with you. Best wishes to Linda, your family, and friends. Your younger friend, George W. Bush.
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George W. Bush Quotes
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Bill Veeck Quotes