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When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it
— Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience ... when I was young I wasn't scared about anything
— Thierry Henry
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.
— Dee Hock
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
— Evelyn Waugh
When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.
— Mark Rubinstein
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
— Maxwell Maltz
Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
— Teju Cole
The thing about growing old is that when you wake up with a new pain, you can just about count on it becoming a permanent part of your life!
— Marjorie Pay Hinckley
War is a dumb game thought out by men when they become too old to play cowboys and crooks.
— Irma Joubert
When you are not aware that you are bringing old learning to your current relationships, you will want to lie about where it is coming from.
— Cortney S. Warren
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
— William Shakespeare
The young remember most deeply ... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly.
— Dan Simmons
When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
— Lawrence Taylor
In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.
— Brett Favre
In Puppies Behind Bars, when the puppy is eight weeks old it is given to an inmate. The inmate is responsible for the dog.
— Doris Roberts
I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
— Zhang Yimou
Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all.
— Josephine Tey
Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.
— Shelton Smith
The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
— Carine Roitfeld
This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.
— Jonathan Galassi
Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
— Catherynne M Valente
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope.
— Mark Haddon
The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old
— Clint Eastwood
Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.
— Joni Mitchell
It would be better if only the old men fought the wars. Every country is the country of youth. When its youth dies, it dies with them.
— Jean Giraudoux
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
— Gerald Raftery
There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.
— Larissa Ione
When the old faith is gone, and the enthusiasm for the gospel is extinct, it is no wonder that people seek something else in the way of delight.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
— Ezekiel Emanuel
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
— George Herbert
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
— Karl Lagerfeld
When a new book is published, read an old one.
— Samuel Rogers
I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
— Carl Sandburg
This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old.
— Madeline Miller
I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
— Vanessa Paradis
Today...is the anniversary of when we first met. You were just born, and I was five years old.
— Yun Kouga
When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
— Millicent Fenwick
High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.
— Joseph Barbera
One of my favourite items is a very old jacket - it was my mum's uniform from when she was working 15 or 20 years ago.
— Astrid Berges-Frisbey
Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
— Robert Orben
When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.
— Kathryn Stockett
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
— Sarah McLachlan
When I joined 'WhatsApp,' I was 38 years old. Opportunity is available to us in all walks of life and at all ages.
— Brian Acton
Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
— Catherynne M Valente
When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left.
— Claire North
Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
— Hannah Arendt
Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.
— Erika Lopez
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.
— Chinua Achebe
When you are on the podium nobody is asking you if you are 15 or 30 years old. What matters is who can do great gymnastics.
— Oksana Chusovitina
[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
This is why I should have had a son of my own, thought Ender. To lean on me when he was small, and then for me to lean on when I'm old.
— Orson Scott Card
When a story is old, it is powerful.
— Brian Bennudriti
There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
— Phyllis Diller
There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.
— Shane Claiborne
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
My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
— George R R Martin
Whatever age you are when you're first burned is old enough to lose hope that you'll ever get excited about anybody else.
— Daria Snadowsky
Life is Beauty, Mystery, Sweetness and Terror. Get married soon as possible so when you get divorced, you're not too old.
Miss Agony — W.H. Manville
Miss Agony — W.H. Manville
Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.
— Robert Lowell
And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.
— Anne Lamott
The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.
— Wilson Mizner
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. LORD
— Oscar Wilde
I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
— P. J. O'Rourke
It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority.
— Sue Grafton
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.
— Helene Cixous
Chanel No. 5 is my perfume when I'm feeling like a lady. It's old-school and warm - and it reminds me of my mom.
— Phoebe Tonkin
When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.
— Honore De Balzac
There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'
— William Cosmo Monkhouse
When we're young, everything is possible; when we're old, possibilities are everything.
— Mardy Grothe
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.
— Mark Twain
The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)
— Dan Carruthers
But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.
— Dexter Palmer
When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
— Brad Paisley