I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down. ~George Burns
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Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ~Chinese Proverb
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
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At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs. ~Robyn Davidson
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Blue eyes say, "Love me or I die." Black eyes say, "Love me or I kill thee." ~Spanish Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
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Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. ~Chinese Proverb
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All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. ~Benjamin Franklin
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A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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Brilliant. A very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead. ~Harry Enfield
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Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Gautemalan Proverb
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Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. ~Peter Elbow
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese 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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God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~Arabic Proverb
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I love layers! ~Alexander Wang
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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As the old cock crows the young cock learns. ~Irish Proverb
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