"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."

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"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Death, Old, Pain

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Age, Men, Forget, Old

"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Age, Aging, Virginity, Wisdom, Respect

"The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"If youth knew; if age could."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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Explore more quotes by Colin Powell

"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."

Work

"But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward."

Compromise

"I try to be the same person I was yesterday."

Consistency

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

Attitude

"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."

Ego

"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission."

Management

"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."

People

"I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon."

Will

"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government."

Life

"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."

Leadership