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If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person. — Rolf Harris

An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body. — Jim Hayes

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion. — Ann-Margret

What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret. — Fred Ebb

It was a reminder of the old truth that for tyranny to flourish all it required was the complicity of good men. — Claire North

The good thing about being old is not being young. — Stephen Richards

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. — Bo Bennett

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. — William Shakespeare

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is. — Brene Brown

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. — Anthony Burgess

The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song. — Hans Christian Andersen

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis. — Kathy Bryson

Errol Flynn and I are the only ones left who do any good old hell raising. — Humphrey Bogart

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace. — Richard Steele

There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.' — Joe Biden

The old proverb was now made good, the mountain had brought forth a mouse. — Plutarch

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. — Sean Connery

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. — Lord Byron

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that. — Javier Bardem

An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper. — Elizabeth Letts

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations. — Yannis Philippakis

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back? — Marsha Norman

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing. — Sally Field

Take no heed of good looks , but rather of callused hand.
Old Maori saying: Choose a husband for his work, not his appearance. — Toni Polancy

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. — James Joyce

And there the wicked old witch stayed for a good long time ... And did she ever come out? ... Not yet. — Gregory Maguire

Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die! — Philip Roth

Tough love doesn't work. Turns out that just good old 'love' is enough. — Matt Haig

They taught me longing - Sehnsucht; made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower. — Alister E. McGrath

I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama. — Elvis Presley

He's a good old sort. If only he weren't plumb crazy! — Michael Ende

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. — Charles Krauthammer

An old man in a house is a good sign. — Benjamin Franklin

Twelve-year-old Islay. Good stuff if you liked peat, smoke, earth, rain, despair, and the Atlantic Ocean, and who doesn't like that? — Adrian McKinty

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. — Maeve Binchy

Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true. — Padma Lakshmi

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays. — Jenna Dewan

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves. — E.W. Howe

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo. — Anthony Hopkins

This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better. — William Ralph Inge

My health is good; it's my age that's bad. — Roy Acuff

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius

The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome. A clear skin, a peach-bloom complexion, and good teeth are found all over the island. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah! How good it feels the hand of an old friend. — Mary Engelbreit

What IS it about this town? I never thought I'd long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons. — C.T. Phipps

Labyrinths were old sorcery, and subtle: good for recharging one's magical resources when they were running low. — Lev Grossman

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it. — Douglas Coupland

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I'm old and happy. I've had a good life. — Ruth Duccini

The spring came suddenly; the rains stopped, the days grew noticeably longer, and the afternoon light felt powdery, as if it might blow away. — Jane Mendelsohn

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead. — Alice Childress

Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. — Charles Bukowski

I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises. — Walter Mischel

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings. — Robert James Waller

Let us toast to good things about bad times, to old friends and new enemies, to great tragedies and small pleasures! — P.M. Steffen

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for. — Louis Armstrong

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue. — Joy Williams

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old. — Justin Townes Earle

Jesus does not love any child (young or old) because the child is good. Jesus loves his children because he is good. — Bryan Chapell

We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament. — Adrian McKinty

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett

Chris Martin's a good friend of mine. I'm actually Apple's godfather. He's an old friend and we've been mates for quite a few years now. — Simon Pegg

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation. — Paul Krugman

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship. — Julia Roberts

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside. — Jon Stewart

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste. — Tom Rush

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone. — Dick Gregory

Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. — William Wordsworth

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. — Chuck Palahniuk

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right." — Neil Oliver

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. — Steffi Graf

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet. — Jason Hirschhorn

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. — Ian Hislop

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. — Lee Iacocca

Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope! — Ogden Nash

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. — Shane Smith

I love a good 2,000 year old storytelling fresco! — Joy Baer

As your product evolves, adding new features becomes as easy as it was in the good old days of greenfield development. — Scott Millett

Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism. — Maggie Young

If you're good enough, you're old enough. — Freddy Adu

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

You see, I just love analogies. Give me a good old analogy any day. — James St. James

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. — Quincy Jones

Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days. — Mohammed Hanif

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die. — Diplo

They wiped his paws on a good bath towel whenever he came in with wet feet, because they had not been married long enough to have an old bath towel, — Beverly Cleary

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. — Izaak Walton

Everyone deserves 100 years of good life before starting to grow old. — Patricia Gulley

You mistake my jealousy for good old-fashioned cynicism. — Nicole Williams

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie. — Jeremy Bulloch

One who has passed the thirtieth year
already is as good as dead
it would be best to kill you off by then. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. — Abraham Lincoln

and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and — Kenneth Grahame

Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good. — Tim Tharp