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So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them. — Mark Forsyth

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students. — Paul McCartney

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet. — Zora Neale Hurston

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children. — Johnny Hunt

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old questions, but a new set of questions. — Brian D. McLaren

I escaped to New York, and then L.A., but when I dream of home, I still dream of my old house in Holmdel. — Lorene Scafaria

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom. — Graham Greene

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter. — Jane Siberry

The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs. — John Irving

I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. — Paul Broun

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial. — Hayden Panettiere

Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too. — Antoinette Perry

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. — Andre Holland

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Jack watched him drive away. He shook his head. The old woman might be weird, maybe even crazy, but there was no such thing as a witch. * — J.S. Green

The young may die, but the old must! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools. — Brigham Young

Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old. — C.E. Murphy

As far as my own sexual orientation, I'm only seventeen years old and as of right now, I'm straight, but who knows what's to come? — Judith E. Snow

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19. — Elle King

In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees. — David Nicholls

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you. — Frank Stella

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

The laugh tagged on the end of it is forced as well. I smile fractionally. Edged with old pain, but there's a strange comfort to the way it hurts. — Richard K. Morgan

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

She shouldn't have. She knew it. But her love for him was new, and her love for herself was old, and she was all she'd had for so very, very long. — Lauren Groff

I started out old, but I have to say that I've been very lucky to work consistently since I started. I've really never been out of work. — Kurt Fuller

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. — Rick Bass

Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance. — Joss Whedon

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change. — Therese Anne Fowler

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

But I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside her in the sand. — Sarah Ockler

But you have to remember, Fran, she's too old to change, but you are getting old enough to understand that. — Stephen King

Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake. — Erma Bombeck

We are reformers in the spring, but iin autumn we stand by the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson — Ron Suskind

An old guy was asked if he had ever googled himself. Probably not computer literate, he answered: "Of course, we all did, but we didn't call it that. — Mike Bove

I feel like I'm finally whole. I'm five thousand years old," he rasped. "But the day you found me in the woods, that's when my life started. — Larissa Ione

You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt either. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House. — Louise Mensch

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises. — Michael J. Saylor

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation. — Compay Segundo

But until we are old ladies- a cypress age, a Sawtooth age- I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love. — Karen Russell

Don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old. — Beth Hoffman

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins. — Patrick Rothfuss

Old urges continue to arise, but urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does. — Dan Millman

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough. — Ignazio Silone

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead — Terry Pratchett

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them. — Kevin Kwan

There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that. — Shane Koyczan

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death. — John Greenleaf Whittier

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide. One — Tom Spanbauer

If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I'm on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we're too old to be young. — Caroline Kepnes

But I'm getting to it. I can't come at it cold. I'm warming my hands over old stories. — Bernie Mcgill

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China. — Olusegun Obasanjo

God can deliver you in one day, but it may take years to break old habits or build new habits. — Mark Batterson

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. — Erica Bauermeister

I'm in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. — Suzanne Collins

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. — Jean Paul

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy. — Rainn Wilson

Today, many Christians don't seem concerned about the Old Testament, but apparently God still has concern for His Law, all the way to the end of time. — Jim Bakker

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

I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old. — Tom Sizemore

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. — Marvin Hamlisch

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart. — William J. Clinton

Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it. — Dominique Moceanu

In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming for me. — Victoria Aveyard

Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on. — Andre Maurois

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels. — Henry Fox

Two years older than me, but he's [Dust] one of those guys who you known is an old soul the moment you meet him. — Katie McGarry

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean. — Joe Girardi

Lazy in everything," said Ross, "but the search for excuses. Like two old pigs in their sty and as slow to move from their own patch of filth." Prudie — Winston Graham

I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me. — John Green

I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. — Johnny Cash

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. — Walter Raleigh

I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill. — Lee Trevino

I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay. — John Green

People don't talk about mercy very much these days - it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary — Alexander McCall Smith

Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes. — Paullina Simons

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet. — Deb Caletti

Never see the world with am infant eye, but let it be as old as you. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop. — Anderson Cooper

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel De Montaigne

I like kids, but I don't expect to have any of my own. I'm 40 years old and spend most of my time working. I'd be a terrible mother. — Virginia Postrel

I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up. — David Malouf

Flying has torn apart the relationship of space and time: it uses our old clock but with new yardsticks. — Charles Lindbergh

But I tell you what - if you come across a farm boy and an old wizard, shiv them, take their horses, and go make your own destiny. — Michael R. Underwood

What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats

But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn't die here. They were just forgotten. — Amanda Stevens

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different. — Michael Lewis

Old things are replaced by new ones but the only old ones that cant be replaced are the ones with something with our lives. — Anthony Castillo

We were not pioneers ourselves, but we journeyed over old trails that were new to us, and with hearts open. Who shall distinguish? — J. Monroe Thorington

Just the sounds of an old building settling, I tell myself . . . but I wonder. — Stephen King

There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags. — Billy Graham

My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies. — Elizabeth Perkins

But Montague is bound as well as I,
In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,
For men so old as we to keep the peace. — William Shakespeare

Some of our old ways are better forgotten, but not all of them. — Nnedi Okorafor

You were young, I thought, not once but always before, always always, every day before the day just passed. You were young only minutes ago. — Timothy Schaffert