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Time unlived grows old
Like unworn robes in a locked chest.


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A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases; ANONYMOUS When a young woman grows old
her vanity turns to shame.
GAELIC PROVERB Time as he grows old teaches all things.
AESCHYLUS Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.
AESCHYLUS Death comes to all
But great achievements raise a monument
Which shall endure until the sun ...
GEORGE FABRICIUS A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow.
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER The time grows old, but our love didn't get cold. -Happy Anniversary
BRADLEY B. DALINA He's twenty-nine. And what did you think he was going to look like?"
She shrugged.
"You kn...
CHLOE NEILL the one
who will jolt awake
all the unwritten
the unsung
and the unlived
i...
SANOBER KHAN Two to three hours of studying a night,
Is good medicine for the soul,
I have tried this ...
CHARMAINE J. FORDE A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
PROVERB Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the laps...
ARISTOTLE He has wet dreams and moans dirty things about chest hair.”
“That was one time.” Okay, mo...
T.J. KLUNE Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
SALLUST That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE SR. That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE, SR. I have peanut M&M's up there."
"Not my style"
"Raisinets."
"Feh."
"Sam Adams...
J.R. WARD An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time...
STEVE GOODIER Do not fear death... only the unlived life.
You don't have to live forever;
You just have to...
NATALIE BABBITT Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it."

Francie wished adults wo...
BETTY SMITH Every time you
tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
RUPI KAUR At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
But like o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. As the body grows in youth, so does wisdom in old age.
JIM GENOVESE After another half second, he's locked me in a bear hug, crushing me into his chest and lifting my f...
RICK YANCEY Power seldome grows old at Court.
GEORGE HERBERT Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
BARBARA TUCHMAN Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I like watching
from inside, as if locked away
and stealing the distinct pleasure
...
KRISTEN HENDERSON was like a sledgehammer in the chest.
ARMY SGT. I worked so hard for that first kiss
And a heart don’t forget something like that

Like...
TIM MCGRAW Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
SIMON VAN BOOY How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?"
"With a knife in the chest. Or...
BRANDON SANDERSON No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.
MARIE BEYON RAY No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living
MARIE BEYNON RAY If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundr...
JERRY SPINELLI I'm just locked in right now. Every time I come up I feel like I can hit the ball.
JEFF MONACO GOD made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old;
He made her smile of the sunshine,...
PAT O'REILLY Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
SAMUEL ULLMAN In the grand scheme of life, nobody grows old keeping their soul unblemished.
A.J. DARKHOLME When the devil grows old he turns hermit.
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO When the devil grows old he turns hermit
ARIOSTO Knowledge never grows old; it is eternally young.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Do you live and work here?" Trinity clenched her fist against his chest, her thoughts spinning. "At ...
CHEYENNE MCCRAY A dragon grows in leaps and bounds,
Like troubles mounting by the pound.

Its stature...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and gro...
OSCAR WILDE Time machine to the past
Step back a few years
Old feelings, like Lazarus
Suddenly re...
JUSTIN WETCH The Cloudy Vase

Past time, I threw the flowers out,
washed out the cloudy vas...
JANE HIRSHFIELD Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religi...
PHILIP REEVE I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them.
JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING The prince's robes and beggar's rags,
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's t...
WILLIAM BLAKE There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young,
When the buds of April blossomed, ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
GREEK PROVERB I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian)
Well, you're never too o...
SHERRILYN KENYON One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that wh...
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND You must become a free man so that you have “Sidik Paningal; Java” (lucidity and precision of si...
EMHA AINUN NADJIB My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Some like them hot,some like them cold.
Some like them when they're not to darn old
Some l...
RING LARDNER Every time his lips meet mine, my whole body begins a slow tingle that starts from within in my ches...
ALEX ROSA She kissed his chest. "Thanks for letting me into your heart."
He tucked her hair behind her e...
LISA KESSLER We plant, God grows"

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. ALAN WOODS You're 45 years old! I mean, there has to be a point where one grows up! I don't know what that poin...
DANNY BONADUCE The unlived life is not worth examining.
TOM MORRIS Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived lives
ERICH FROMM The unlived life is not worth examining.
SHELDON KOPP Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry...
JOHN WEBSTER I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my bo...
ROMAN PAYNE Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun...
JUNOT DíAZ Gorillas have a belch vocalization, which is sort of like, 'I'm OK, you're OK.' They...
ANDY SERKIS ...bunches of flowers and kisses, their bodies locked together by a stopwatch."

Descripti...
SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKA I died of a broken heart.
Oh!
And the gunshot wound to the chest!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to...
ELLEN HOPKINS I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Something contracts in my chest. The air shifts, grows heavy and dense as mud. Alexa twists her hair...
CLARA KENSIE Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
ANONYMOUS GREEK PROVERB My father, father!' - she might pray to the winds;
no innocence moves her judges mad for war. <...
AESCHYLUS The unlived life is not worthy of death.
CHARLES ROBERT JONES At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
ROSE MACAULAY I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road,
Crawling things hooked a...
ROMAN PAYNE The more one knows, the sooner one grows old,” Midnight returned cheerfully.
KATHERINE ARDEN Its like I have a window in my chest where sunlight is pouring in.
JANDY NELSON Her moral obligation
to keep our hearts entwined.
Her preeminent love,
smelling like ...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO The sunlight in the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its ...
LOUIS MACNEICE There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
H.P. LOVECRAFT And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. T...
J.K. ROWLING So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me."
"While I think you'll marry Sophos."
"I might....
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Don't fight them anymore.I'm going to go with them."
"No. I won't let them take you."
"You...
RICHELLE MEAD Science grows like a weed every year.
KARY MULLIS At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
DAME ROSE MACAULAY the value of a life unlived is not worth the cost of dying
CHARLES ROBERT JONES These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white...
BIBLE Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.
Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.
ABERJHANI A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Your desire to advise other people,
grows in line with your perception...
that assumes yo...
TOBA BETA Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing ...
JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY

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