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Even the best of mirrors can show only one side of things.
old japanese quote. — Mkdeville

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie De Wolfe

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. — Gilbert Highet

No matter how old you are, you always want your mother's love and acceptance. I guess I'm hoping one day I'll get it back. — Hilary Grossman

Replace the old memory with a potentially crappier new one? No thank you. — Lauren Barnholdt

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Conversion is not merely a ticket out of hell. It is the beginning of a whole new life, not just an end to the old one. — Aimee Byrd

It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

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

High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned. — Steven Erikson

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

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand. — Walter Mosley

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

Terror owned Adam. The old terror, the one that was just as much confusion and betrayal as fear itself. — Maggie Stiefvater

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson

The lack of fiscal responsibility is one of the main reasons I finally left my old Party. — Lincoln Chafee

Age wins and one must learn to grow old. — Diana Cooper

One day you realise your old life was only an escape from an inner silence — Judy Croome

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists. — Anne Lamott

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics. — William Feather

Ah, vampire humor. Thank God it never got old, said no one ever. — Chloe Neill

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady. — Victoria Moran

Where have all the flowers of old Singapore gone? Gone, one would imagine, with the old folks and homes — Thien

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. — Malcolm Forbes

I find I have, and a heart doesn't suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn't go with modern dress. It makes one look old. — Oscar Wilde

I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically. — Ralph Stanley

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. — Susan Sontag

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city. — Urs Fischer

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

Two remarkable men
one young, one old
fuel each other's spirits in the beautiful documentary Keep On Keepin' On. — Leonard Maltin

You can't give a Dementor the old one-two! — J.K. Rowling

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 way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you! — Barbara Kingsolver

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality. — John Wolcot

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

Worked like a Trojan. That's one thing I'll say for the Chinese: when it comes to pure old-fashioned work, you can't fault them. — Eleanor Catton

One cannot keep all the old views and opinions and acquire new ones. — P.D. Ouspensky

Read two old books for every new one. — J.I. Packer

Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise. — Millicent Ashby

Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac? — Thomm Quackenbush

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No one is too old for fairy tales. — Nick Lake

When you had no one to vent to, everything stayed inside and festered like old meat in a hot fridge. — Dia Reeves

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40, nobody wanted me; I couldn't get a job. — Mickey Rooney

One cannot innovate new improvements without understanding old failures. — Deanna Raybourn

One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream. — Israelmore Ayivor

That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways. — Chuck Palahniuk

Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty all rolled into one. — Tahereh Mafi

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

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. — Jane Addams

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new! — Thomas Davis

While on that old grey stone I sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats

I once aged 90 years old in one episode. — DeForest Kelley

Larry King is so old, he's actually one of the Jews that killed Christ. — Anthony Jeselnik

The whole dear notion of one's own Self-marvelous old free-willed, free- enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self- is a myth. — Lewis Thomas

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me. — Sara Paxton

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church. — Al Jarreau

Seeing is believing, or so the old saying goes. One of the strongest encouragements for trusting God today is seeing God's power in the past. — Anonymous

After I was old enough to work, they'd have to make three pies: one for each family and one for Lavon. And I'd guard mine. — Levon Helm

It was one thing not taking an old bitterness to a new country. It was another to actually pay to send back Libyan Semtex to blow up my home. — A.A. Gill

Unlike old age or cancer, no one anticipates a suicide. — Jay Asher

There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old friend." "I — David Leadbeater

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

Penard's got a secret baby!' Fifteen-year-old Richard twisted his lips up at one end. 'Maybe he has a secret wife in the attic! — Olivia Newport

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

No-one is ever too old to know better. — Margaret Preston

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

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one. — Michelle Williams

No one day is like another,each tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars are created. — Paulo Coelho

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age. — Albert Outler

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this. — Will Self

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. — Joshua Greenberg

There was the woman I was before my mom died and the one I was now, my old life sitting on the surface of me like a bruise. — Cheryl Strayed

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

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

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not. — Doris Roberts

If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small. — April E. Brucker

It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one. — Karl Marx

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. — Graham Chapman

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one leaves. — Bill Vaughan

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

The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well? — Ayn Rand

Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse. — Edward Lear

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

I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week. — Cynthia Payne

The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it. — Maggie Stiefvater

If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance - one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war. — Erica Jong

In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old woman. — Abigail George

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

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. — Virginia Woolf

One time, I was young. I was skinny. I was elegant. Getting old is terrible. — Sirio Maccioni

I saved my soul, replied my father
For this, firstly, you should have one, old man — Yasmina Khadra

As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn. — David Nicholls

Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail. — Charles Bukowski

I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old. — Rebecca Black

In 1482, Quasimodo was about twenty years of age; Claude Frollo, about thirty-six. One had grown up, the other had grown old. — Victor Hugo