Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem
Mitch Albom
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Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it ...
MITCH ALBOM Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with ...
MITCH ALBOM It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just t...
MITCH ALBOM Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
MITCH ALBOM Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somethin...
MITCH ALBOM Most people do not have a problem with being old. They have a problem with looking old.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesda...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be...
MORRIE SCHWARTZ The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
MITCH LEIGH Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly...
MITCH ALBOM I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.
JOHN SCALZI The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think g...
KATE BECKINSALE Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.
ALISON LARKIN When the young deal with the old -- that takes courage. May the courage of the young be tempered by ...
TERENCE T. GORSKI Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. W...
PETER LINDBERGH I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn&...
JOANNA LUMLEY Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man
HARRISON FORD Believe me, for a 28-year-old writer, getting a check for $200,000 was a big deal indeed,
AARON SORKIN Your latest news is just news being repeated over and over again. It's old news already.
ANDONI GARCIA There is no such thing as 'getting old'. It is 'getting weak' that is often confused with.
WOHI PURANA The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Trying a new approach to an old problem can change everything.
LORI R TAYLOR Do you prefer Mitch? Or is Mitchell better?'..
.. Mitch, I say. Mitch is what my friends calle...
MITCH ALBOM The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the...
BRUCE KENT My problem is that this issue of romantic attraction between two men is being presented to my 7-year...
ROBIN WIRTHLIN The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terror...
VLADIMIR PUTIN It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around m...
KATHERINE DUNN Everyone is getting old, but will you own your fortunes when you are old.......
TOMOKAZU MIURO 2005 I must be getting old,i can no longer remember the future.
ARTHUR LEWIS Yeah, this is getting pretty old.
HENRY WILK All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old...
KURT VONNEGUT You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is go...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend". We never appreciate how important old
f...
GRANT FAIRLEY One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend". We never appreciate how important old friend...
GRANT FAIRLEY Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.
CHICK COREA The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS Your old traditional way of thinking is your problem
SUNDAY ADELAJA We have old parents so we can learn old age, humanity..
MARIANA FULGER The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is...
JOSEPH BARBERA What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
OLD EPITAPH When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.
OLD RHYME If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way
No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.
OLD RHYME I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger...
OLD SONG This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.
[Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;...
OLD SONG A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherd's warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shephe...
OLD RHYME It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is
the space between the bars that hol...
OLD SAYING There's a skin without and a skin within,
A covering skin and a lining skin,
But the skin with...
OLD SONG When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on,
He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.
"With t...
OLD SONG Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it.
OLD SAYING A leap year
Is never a good sheep year.
OLD SAYING There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends
forsake us.
OLD SAYING Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
OLD TESTAMENT Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all
evils.
[Lat., Gula plures occidit q...
OLD SONG The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not qu...
OLD SONG In good King Charles's golden days
When royalty no harm meant,
A zealous high-churchman was I,...
OLD SONG Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'...
OLD SONG When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
OLD SONG Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old blue ...
OLD SONG As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested
in adversity.
OLD SONG Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
OLD SONG An injury may prove a blessing.
OLD SONG Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
OLD SONG A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man
sickens.
OLD SONG A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
OLD SONG A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
OLD SONG A credulous thing is love.
OLD SONG A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
OLD SONG A bitter drug oft brings relief.
OLD SONG Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
OLD SONG St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France.
Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
OLD SONG A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
OLD SONG Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
OLD SONG As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy
months will you have.
OLD SAYING Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.]
OLD SAYING Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us
and ours.
And when we and ours ...
OLD SAYING Here's a health to all those that we love,
Here's a health to all those that love us,
Here's a...
OLD SAYING A wicked book cannot repent.
OLD PROVERB Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of ...
CHANAKYA If we can reduce (obesity) for a 10-year-old, their chance of being obese at 35 is lessened.
BONNIE HOPPEL The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you. I wondered if this was why w...
MITCH ALBOM We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generall...
JAMES MANGOLD One of the worst things I’ve learned about getting older is that there seems to be more change tha...
DAN GROAT Wow, I'm getting old. She followed me at my old high school.
TAMIKA WILLIAMS Watching 'Old Boy' is like getting hit in the mouth.
JEFF DAVIDSON Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
JAMES ROSENQUIST I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or...
SOLANGE KNOWLES The good thing about being old is not being young.
STEPHEN RICHARDS There's no getting around it I'm getting old,
BLAINE WILSON Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
he always perceives you as if never changed.
TOBA BETA That is one of the Laws of Usenet, up there with 'You can tell when a Usenet discussion is getting o...
DAVID GOLDFARB We do have a huge problem with air pollution in Ohio and part of the reason is the power plants ... ...
JANICE NOLEN Getting old ain't for sissies.
BETTY DAVIS Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always goin...
DAN AUERBACH The upside to the disk problem was that we recovered the old system to the SAN.
JEFF BERLINER I couldn't even understand her. I wasn't sure what she was saying to us. Here is a 19-year old girl ...
JOE BURNSIDE They played all kinds of stuff, and we liked that. With us, anything that hits our ears and our hear...
HENRY GARZA The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five- year old men more
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My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"...
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'Why?'
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"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they're busy do...
MITCH ALBOM I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you togethe...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for...
MITCH ALBOM What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of ...
MITCH ALBOM You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.
MITCH ALBOM As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...
MITCH ALBOM Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow,...
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