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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
Love
Robert Burton

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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
Riches
Sir Richard Burton

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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
Age and Aging
Andre B. Buruch

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Love
Leo Buscaglia

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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
Fortune
Eric Butterworth

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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
Credit
Lord Byron

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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Endurance
Lord Byron

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

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The good old times -- all times when old are good.
Nostalgia
Lord Byron

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Arts and Artists
Al Capp

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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Age and Aging
Thomas Carlyle

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Churches
Thomas Carlyle

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
Action
Andrew Carnegie

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Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Age and Aging
Lillian Carter

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Generations
Willa Cather

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Winter
Willa Cather

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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Age and Aging
Cato The Elder

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Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
Punishment
Miguel De Cervantes

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Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
Genius
Chao Chang

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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Uncategorised
George Chapman

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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
Gold
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Age and Aging
Maurice Chevalier

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
Age and Aging
Lydia M. Child

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An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
Time and Time Management
Chinese Proverb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun