"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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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."

Maxwell Maltz, American Scientist

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"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet."

Luther Vandross, American Musician

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"I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible."

Charles Lamb, English Critic

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"I have some of the old videos of my performances on it."

Wanda Jackson, American Musician

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"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"

Norman Rockwell, American Artist

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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."

Tanith Lee, British Writer

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"Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s."

Jessica Simpson, American Musician

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"It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York."

O. Henry, American Writer

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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."

"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

"The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet."

"I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible."

"I have some of the old videos of my performances on it."

"Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!"

"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."

"Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s."

"It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York."

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

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

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

"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

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

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

"The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered."

"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."