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My memory plays me odd tricks these days [...] Age spares us nothing, old friend. Like ancient trees, we die from the top.


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ANN-MARIE MACDONALD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory
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THEE AMAZING GRACE Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.
AL SHARPMAN Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
ROBERT BENCHLEY Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
FRANKLIN ADAMS Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and...
GORE VIDAL Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to mak...
JOSEPH CONRAD I would die for you, my love—in old age.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we ...
GABY HOFFMANN Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to othe...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
VOLTAIRE Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorro...
H. RIDER HAGGARD The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.
MARTIN REES Ancient or Age-old are not synonyms for Facts & Evidence.
PIYUSH LODHA Importantly, the Clinton-Gore White House has 20 days to produce these documents.
LARRY KLAYMAN She has a memory of trees and fields and nothing more.
JAMES THURBER These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the mo...
JOAN D. VINGE I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house i...
JAY PARINI There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome,...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
BOB DYLAN Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) She was my best friend for 21 years. From the days we played with My Little Pony.
AMANDA JONES Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.
JOHN PAUL DEJORIA Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need
VOLTAIRE The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to ex...
MARV LEVY A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
READERS DIGEST A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails
PIONEER GIRLS LEADERS' HANDBOOK A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
DONNA ROBERTS 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 Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers
PLATO Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
LACTANTIUS FIRMIANUS Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age
LACTANTIUS Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How young can you die of old age?
STEVEN WRIGHT How young can you die of old age?
STEPHEN WRIGHT My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-en...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Queerness isn't just Lady Gaga and overpriced drinks and fauxhawks. It's James Baldwin and B...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
ORLANDO BLOOM 'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted ...
JEROME CHARYN They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war,...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.
YAIR LAPID An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that...
LAURA MONCUR I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends soft as it...
LANGSTON HUGHES From the top of my cranium, he plays quite extensively in Spring Training. Perhaps we should give hi...
KEN MACHA How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart
ELIZA COOK How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mank...
CLAUDE VORILHON The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enou...
MARV LEVY They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
LANGSTON HUGHES We like the idea of living a long, happy life, but no one wants to grow old. Old age scares the heck...
DR. NOELLE NELSON Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart!
ELIZA COOK I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his ca...
WIL SHRINER It's plays that on most days we make. Today, it cost us the game.
BEN HUMPHREY My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
ISAAC HANSON But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
ELLIOTT SMITH I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is com...
CHER True love does not die prematurely, it dies of old age...
PHILIP T. M. Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...
MORDECAI RICHLER Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD Like my dear old friend Marie Dressler, my ugly mug has been my fortune.
WALLACE BEERY Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Al Gore has been a vocal supporter of environmental issues. We are appealing to Al Gore to use his p...
ROBIN SCHNEIDER Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKER Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I rea...
BAYARD TAYLOR A true friend friendship is hard to find a true friend friendship is rare like an ancient gem
MARCELLE HINKSON 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 Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES The acquisition is significant because it contains stunning ancient redwood trees in an area of the ...
KATHERINE ANDERTON We pulled it out of our old bag of tricks.
HINES WARD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Usel...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us."
"You are mortal; you age; you die...
CASSANDRA CLARE Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MOORE Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MORE In my second game, I started missing spares and the lanes started getting worse for me.
COURTNEY CAMPBELL The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old...
JAMES FALLOWS Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance
FRENCH PROVERB These trees and these old people have one thing in common - they're both going in the ground soon!
BAM MARGERA Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can ...
GOLDA MEIR Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.
GOLDA MEIR I guess having self-respect these days is out-of-style.. Well call me old-fashion!
VIOLETA GARCIA Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of wo...
GEORGE BURNS No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; p...
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GORE VIDAL The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
GORE VIDAL In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upo...
GORE VIDAL ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
GORE VIDAL The failure of Hellenism has been, largely, a matter of organization. Rome never tried to impose any...
GORE VIDAL But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...
GORE VIDAL