Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young,
The young are beautiful—but the old are more beautiful than the young


Walt Whitman

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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
UNKNOWN
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fool...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young...
JEROME K. JEROME
We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some youn...
JOHN HUNTER
The old think the young are lazy and entitled. The young think the old are incompetent and inefficie...
JOANIE CONNELL
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
GEORGE CHAPMAN
Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.
BROWNELL LANDRUM
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the bea...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The ol...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The ol...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Young tyrants are more genocidal than old tyrants - with the exception of Khomeini.
JOHN MCCARTHY
Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
ANNE FRANK
Some guys are pressing. I don't know if it's the young guys or the old guys, the batter or the pitch...
KRIS GAWRILUK
She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.
NICOLE LYONS
Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
YOKO ONO
some kill their love when they are young,
and some when they are old;
some strangle with t...
OSCAR WILDE
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
HUGH HEFNER
Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. I...
RAYMOND CHANDLER
We thought young stars, about 1 million years old, would have larger, brighter discs, and older star...
GEORGE RIEKE
Old robots are becoming more human and young humans are becoming more like robots.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS
Those are just some examples but there are a lot of them. I believe that we appeal to many different...
EMILY WRIGHT
We usually have a variety of people who come, some old, some young.
PAM BROWN
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
GEORGE HERBERT
I like my whisky old and my women young.
ERROL FLYNN
When you are young, you think.
When you are old, you reflect.
The very same but yet a life o...
HELENE LAGERBERG
The passions of the young are vices in the old.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young...
TRYON EDWARDS
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as yo...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as yo...
DALE CARNEGIE
When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM
Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
An old young man, will be a young old man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and bef...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
[Companies] are really looking for skilled workers, whether they're young or old.
DEBORAH RUSSELL
Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on
th...
PAUL GOODMAN
There are 85 Lions Clubs members in the area who are no longer affiliated. We want snowbirds. We wel...
CALL PAUL NASH
Old man wiser than young man
PALITHA ARIYARATHNA
Being eye candy always was a short-term career, and here's the reason. The world finds young wom...
LAURIE GRAHAM
The young feel sorrows much more sharply that the old; the latter are nearer the safety net
GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as yo...
TERRI MARIE
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or ph...
FREYA STARK
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
ENGLISH PROVERB
why do people always do hurtful things, don't they realise the harm that follows it. some people tha...
MIKE GRIST
They were educated women...In my group, there were some prominent business women, a couple of them w...
LINDA GENTILE
Women are walking around on the streets. From her calf and the hem of her skirt to her hip, from her...
HWANG SOK-YONG
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as you...
SAMUEL ULLMAN
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and gro...
OSCAR WILDE
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suf...
ANDRé BRETON
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Old men are always young enough to learn, with profit.
AESCHYLUS
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS
...but more often he would be alone, feeling through a certain quick instinct, which was almost a di...
OSCAR WILDE
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure the...
CHIEF SEATTLE
You're such a young king. I barely remember being your age."
"Then clearly we're talking about ...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN
I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care.
KINKY FRIEDMAN
Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, ...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, ...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Children blessings seem, but torments are;/ When young, our folly, and when old our fear.
THOMAS OTWAY
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
ALEXANDER CHASE
That's the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on the behalf of the young. And the ...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Learn young, learn fair; learn old, learn more
SCOTTISH PROVERB
Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu...
EMILY MILLER
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to ...
PHILIP PULLMAN
To the young there are no degrees of old just as there are no degrees of dead - either you are, or y...
JOYCE CAROL OATES
When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it ea...
JULIAN BARNES
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The ...
JILL LEPORE
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful a...
AMBROSE BIERCE
Women are always beautiful.
VILLE VALO
Young people can create beautiful things.
AURORA
And both were young, and one was beautiful.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
When a young woman grows old
her vanity turns to shame.
GAELIC PROVERB
Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is t...
PHILIP PULLMAN
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of m...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON SR.
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. ...
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Regardless of others, ever regardful...
WALT WHITMAN
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep w...
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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
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I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
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I am large, I contain multitudes
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
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Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
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Seeing, hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
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Many a good man I have seen go under.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belon...
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Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
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Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
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Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single w...
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression
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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name...
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The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
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