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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net


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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net
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CHINESE PROVERB The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything...
CHINESE PROVERBS When you can take the chairlift up and can see the three Ansel Adams peaks, it's just majestic. ... ...
SAM BUSH You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
DR. SEUSS Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
GEORGE SAND Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Too young to care; Too old to change.
HAFSA SHAH 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. You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
ANITA MERINA You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.
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RICKY MARTIN You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
BILL PARCELLS I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.
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W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM You're never too old to grow up.
SHIRLEY CONRAN War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.
VIKRANT PARSAI I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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KINKY FRIEDMAN I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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CODY WILSHIRE Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone
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ROBERT KIYOSAKI Too fair to worship, too divine to love.
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BUCK LEONARD Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
BENNETT CERF You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
MARAT SAFIN When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young ar...
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SUZY KASSEM Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
ANDRE GIDE You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
AVA DELLAIRA WE give up because people say that we are too old; too frail; not bright enough, have no get up and ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
LIONEL KAUFFMAN I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
GARTH BROOKS Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
DON DELILLO Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
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BILL VAUGHAN There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
KIN HUBBARD There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick
KIN HUBBARD I am just making up for being far too sensible when I was young.
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BENNETT CERF When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I used to be too young to worry about the future. Now I'm too old. Funny how things work out.
RAIN BOJANGLES One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I've honestly not been too aware of my age until I went to the doctor for a full check-up. He said I...
SEAN CONNERY Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
BILL VAUGHN He was close, ... The biggest thing is when they come up the middle. When they come from the outside...
CHRIS GARDOCKI I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
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