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“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 how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”

— George Burns

“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.”

“I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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

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

— Winston Churchill

“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.”

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

— Oscar Wilde

“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Don't Gain The World And Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.”

“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.”

— Douglas MacArthur

“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.”

— Jonathan Swift

“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.”

— Helen Keller

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.”

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

— Isaac Asimov

“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

— Roger Zelazny

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.”

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