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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
Age and Aging
W. Somerset Maugham

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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Age and Aging
Andre Maurois

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Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.
Happiness
William Maxwell

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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Age and Aging
Golda Meir

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Quotations
H. L. Mencken

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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Heroes and Heroism
H. L. Mencken

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Age and Aging
H. L. Mencken

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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Sex
Henry Miller

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
Leaders and Leadership
John Milton

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Death and Dying
John Milton

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.
Age and Aging
Stu Mittleman

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Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
Gold
Moliere

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God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
Dedication
Dwight L. Moody

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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Remorse
George Moore

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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas Moore

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I will hold.
Perseverance
Motto

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Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Knowledge
Hector Hugh Munro

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It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
Behavior
Hector Hugh Munro

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The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
Uncategorised
Napoleon III

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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
War
Jose Narosky

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
Life and Living
Ogden Nash

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.
Age and Aging
Jack Nicklaus

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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Praise
Friedrich Nietzsche

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No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
Lies and Lying
Friedrich Nietzsche

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One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Emotions
Friedrich Nietzsche

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