"Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Old foxes want no tutors."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid."

Benjamin Hoff, American Author

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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

"Old foxes want no tutors."

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

"As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid."

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

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"Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."

"Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them."

"None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones."

"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."

"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."

"Privilege is the greatest enemy of right."

"In youth we learn; in age we understand."

"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."

"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty."

"He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated."