Do not give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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A heart in love with beauty never grows old. ~Turkish Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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I had somehow always thought of the classics of literature as something apart from me, something to do with academic life and not something you enjoyed. ~Alan Bennett
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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Repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look. ~Marianne Moore
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners. ~Irish Proverb
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The devil takes a hand in what is done in haste. ~Turkish Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Not until down people sleep best, not until they become old they get wise. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder. ~Julie Newmar
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Advice after injury is like medicine after death. ~Danish Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I am getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you are going to let me in. I am getting tired and I need somewhere to begin. ~Bil Keane
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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One sister for sale, one sister for sale, one crying and spying young sister for sale. I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding. Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isn't, there isn't there any one person who will buy this sister for sale. This crying spying old young sister for sale. ~Shel Silverstein
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You know, when you start, especially with me, I did not really know I was going to be a movie actress. I thought I was going to do theater. ~Ludivine Sagnier
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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~Garson Kanin
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin
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