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

Goal, Another, Dream

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.
Dalai Lama

Important, Friend, Friends

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

Stupid, Blessings, Friends

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon

God, Jesus, Said

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

Life, Learning, Mind

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time, Law, Everybody

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

Science, Real, Problems

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Money, Important

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

Life, Wise, Late

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

Playing, Stop, Grow

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

Time, Truth, Remember

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

Live, Long, Desires

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

Friends, Young, Getting

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage, Age, Yourself

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain

Great, Known, Happened

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Home, Happy

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Mark Twain

Her, Bring, Lady

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain

Diamonds, None, Particular

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali

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

Left, Plans, Saving

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill

Best, Words, Short

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston Churchill

Best, Words, Short

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

Best, Words, Short

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Best

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis

Age, Great, Prolonged

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

Woman, Prayer, Action

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Young, Suspect

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

Laughter, Wrinkles, Mirth

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

Experience, Mind, Stretched

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