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You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy

Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln

I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup

When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning

All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck

Old is the new new.
- Anonymous

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck

To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance,
plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature,
good humor, vast curiosity, good speech,
good silence and nothing too much.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard

Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain

As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous

To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead

To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

Have your new year's resolutions been a new beginning for you
or have they just been different words on the same old beginning?
Maybe now's the time to establish
a new pattern of viewing your life fresh.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell

Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement.
Properly understood and applied,
it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember
who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
- Abraham Lincoln

Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old,
and that I know.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George

Our admiration of the antique
is not admiration of the old,
but of the natural.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie