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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.


Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We do not stop playing because we grow old.
We grow old because we stop playing.
ANON. We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
UNKNOWN We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they st...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they st...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My girls are playing good basketball. They never quit.
JENNIFER HARTSHORN We quit talking, that was the big thing. They quit playing as the six of them.
DONNA MURPHY Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have add...
G. STANLEY HALL You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
MICHAEL PRITCHARD You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
MICHAEL PRITCHARD We don't stop laughing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop laughing
MICHAEL PRITCHARD And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-image...
RITA RUDNER People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to qui...
GEORGE E. ALLEN People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to qui...
GEORGE ALLEN People become stingy as they grow old.
SUNNY KINGER To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they g...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to...
GEORGE ALLEN, SR. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
ARTHUR PINERO Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
ARTHUR WING PINERO All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
JEAN ANOUILH [Spanish River is] a good group and they like to have fun. They don't quit, they just keep playing o...
JASON VERSAGE Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.
LEO ROSTEN Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b...
G.K. CHESTERTON I?m proud of them because they had no quit.
BILL PACELIA Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get som...
KATHA POLLITT We knew they were not going to quit. We're all playing for our lives at this point, so we knew they ...
MIKE ADRAS When men grow virtuous in their old age they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's le...
LAURENCE STERNE Eyes that see do not grow old.
NICARAGUAN PROVERB Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because th...
BOYD K. PACKER Are all men bad?"
"Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never...
OSCAR WILDE When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying ...
RACHEL CORRIE Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
CHINESE PROVERB Catfish started to grow, because row cropping became so unprofitable, and a lot of farmers quit row ...
JAMEY CLARY They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years con...
LAURENCE BINYON They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old Age shall not weary them, nor the years condem...
LAURENCE BINYON It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wende...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I didn't quit movies. They quit me.
JANE POWELL People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to qui...
GEORGE E. ALLEN Just because they are old does not mean they are not lethal.
LARRY BABITS Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forge...
WALT DISNEY People afraid of growing old are those who did not grow wise along.
ASCETIC ANGEL Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews...
BIBLE At first the majority of the people were angry because they felt like they were being forced to quit...
ANGELA LENHART They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tel...
KARL MALONE Years do not make sages; they only make old men
ANNE SOPHIE SWETCHINE They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years...
LAURENCE BINYON Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
MARIO PUZO Great men are not born great, they grow great.
MARIO PUZO The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?
STEPHEN KING Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do n...
DR. C. E. WELCH It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want ...
RANDAL KLEISER The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
NAPOLEON The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Don’t Quit. Because when you Quit, you give up the one quality that is essential for Success—Per...
RVM Some become psychotic when they quit using. Because of those withdrawals, these patients need proper...
VICKI CANNELLA Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but th...
CONRAD HILTON They're playing well together. It's a team effort, and every game has been a team effort. The team w...
BRUCE WRIGHT I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion.
TERRY WOGAN He left. He quit because he felt he was playing for everybody else. His heart wasn't in it. That's s...
CHRIS SCELFO It's the same old stubborn regime playing the same old tricks. This is a police state and they don't...
GAMEELA ISMAIL I grow old . . . I grow old . . . / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T.S. ELIOT You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Give our girls credit, they didn't quit, but they haven't quit in any game all season. We might not ...
DENNIS GEORGE It's an uphill battle. But we're not going to quit on (the players) and they won't quit on us.
DREW DANNER Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mista...
CONRAD HILTON Give the credit to my teammates. They did not give up, they did not quit.
BO PERASOL I'm proud of my guys because they never quit. But there's a reason Bolivar's won two straight state ...
BRYAN FARMER They just won't quit competing.
LARRY ZIMMERMAN The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. I...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS You never stop playing. One thing we do is we never quit on each other, whether or not we're down 40...
ALEX KUBE A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON We quit playing, and we played our final gig like five times.
JAY SAUL First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doc...
JAMES GARFIELD Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
CLAUDETTE COLBERT Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.
FREDRIK BACKMAN There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started ...
GEORGE BRETT Especially if the players coming in are 21 years old as freshmen. If you've got an 18-year-old, even...
LELE FOROOD I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.
BIBLE My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
CRAIG GROESCHEL They have been playing really good. We must play better because Omaha is playing good now.
LOUI ERIKSSON The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO We're playing with passion. These guys never quit. We're seeing within our dressing room guys commit...
BOB HARTLEY

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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have cl...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul w...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes th...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-la...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word wi...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES This is an inquisitive age, and if we insist on piling up beyond a certain height knowledge which is...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best book...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall;
A mother's secret hope outlives them al...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action o...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES ... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. Y...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to i...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themse...
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