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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Love, Friendship, Fire

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn

Yourself, Two, Others

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn

Yourself, End, Help

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Joey Adams

Worry, Grow, Temptation

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin

Thinking, Whole, Read

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

Men, Attention, Less

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde

Give, America, Young

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

Best, Husband, Woman

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

Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
Robert Orben

Health, Food, Eat

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

Else, Coffee, Everyone

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese

Live, Kindness, Compassion

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
Dennis Prager

Happy, Lazy, Ungrateful

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs

Business, True, Down

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns

Help, Old, Getting

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
Steve Jobs

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
Bill Cosby

Family, Brother, Sister

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Groucho Marx

Live, Long, Enough

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway

Necessary, Heroes, Harder

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Heart, Pretty

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
John Burroughs

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

Age, Wisdom, Grow

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

Life, Age, Happens

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.
Clint Eastwood

Dating, Someone, Nothing

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.
Clint Eastwood

Doubt, Afraid, Show

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
Kin Hubbard

Life, Fun, Costs

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Elizabeth Taylor

Age, Men, Afraid

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, Worse, Attack

We don't grow older, we grow riper.
Pablo Picasso

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