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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.


Francis Bacon Sr.

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACON To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
ANDRE B. BURUCH To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
JOHN BURROUGHS To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. -Bernard Baruch.
BERNARD BARUCH Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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AARON CIECHANOVER I will never give in to old age until I become old
TINA TURNER I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
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CLIFTON FADIMAN Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH I hate it when people try to tell me that they are right by saying that I am young. So why don't you...
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TINA TURNER The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty...
MITCH ALBOM I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
THORNTON WILDER I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Today, I saw an old chubby wrinkly lady and wish you would be that lady for me when I am old chubby ...
LUVLYNN There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from t...
KATE WINSLET Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we nor...
DOMINIQUE DAWES My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I.
ROBERT PARKER Even though I am 50 years old I have never allowed myself to get old. I am going on with the struggl...
ABDULLAH OCALAN I am no David Beckham. I have not changed my life since I was 15 years old. My family is the only th...
ADOLFO CAMBIASO My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old...
ZAC BROWN I voted for Barack Obama largely on the basis of his temperament, which I thought superior. He is on...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I am a 23 yr old, with the quest of a 5 year old, carelessness of 10 year old, dreams of a 15 year o...
ASHISH RANA An old young man, will be a young old man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [Weah said he was] totally different ... One, she is a woman and I am a man; two, she is older and I...
ELLEN JOHNSON Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God...
EJUMP SCHIFFLER When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belong...
JEAN-LUC GODARD He wasn't so elderly after all, I saw: probably just a few years older than I. And yet I was never a...
HANYA YANAGIHARA Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I c...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE My sister is three years older and super foxy, and I always looked like a 50 year old woman.
PAULA PELL All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON I have hated Keith Foster since I was 15 years old. I hate him because he used to beat on me.
DOROTHY HALLAS I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
MARK TWAIN Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair wa...
M. EMMET WALSH As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an ...
MARCUS T. CICERO As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an ol...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always goin...
DAN AUERBACH How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young...
OSCAR WILDE You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her.
RACHEL HUNTER When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five ...
ETTA JAMES Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
ZAINAB SALBI I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.
MARK TWAIN I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someon...
FERNANDO BOTERO Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left tha...
DAVID BOWIE I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. -Much Ado a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing I do can't be done by a 10-year-old with 15 years of practice.
HARRY BLACKSTONE, JR. My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
JONATHAN DUNNE Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called '...
ADORA SVITAK I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irrita...
J.K. ROWLING I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, youn...
PABLO CASALS Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH The older I get, the older old is.
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MELINA MARCHETTA When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
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an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
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MARK TERNENT It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
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FRANCIS BACON SR. Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man
FRANCIS BACON SR. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for ...
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FRANCIS BACON SR. Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.
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FRANCIS BACON SR. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more...
FRANCIS BACON SR. It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that...
FRANCIS BACON SR. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue
FRANCIS BACON SR. Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
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