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Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.


Elias Canetti

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CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans.
ELLEN DEGENERES You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans.
ELLEN DEGENERES War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.
VIKRANT PARSAI jesus died for everyone, not just straight people
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TOM CUNNINGHAM He's too old to remember where the boundaries are.
JAMES WILSON You are never too old to become younger!
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GREG SKOMAL Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Who is too old to learn is too old to teach
PROVERB They use words like stiff, old, grumpy, and, worst of all, boring.
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JOSEPH O'DONNELL I love the words, because they love me too.
M.F. MOONZAJER We're too old and too mature to fight. Fighting's not necessary.
BRIAN RITCHIE They were too old for retailers.
HARRY PALMER Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
SOURCE UNKNOWN To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in wor...
GERHARD RICHTER This shows you are never too old to get surprised,
JACK WELCH The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
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MAX LUCADO Old words are reborn with new faces.
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ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
PAT BUCKLEY We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
EUGENE H. PETERSON Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Too young to care; Too old to change.
HAFSA SHAH Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
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FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net
FRANKLIN ADAMS Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net
FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
JULES RENARD Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins
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ANTONIO PORCHIA Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
LIONEL KAUFFMAN We get too soon old and too late smart.
FRANK KELLY FREAS We grow too soon old and too late smart
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GEORGE ELIOT Hidden and guile are words too often practiced by man instead of transparency and openness.
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GABRIA CARLINI Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and au...
VIKRAM SETH I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing
JONATHAN TROPPER He was thiryt-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely.
NICHOLAS SPARKS My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.
JOHN BARRYMORE Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.
NANCY B. BREWER you are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
wher...
RAINER MARIA RILKE WE give up because people say that we are too old; too frail; not bright enough, have no get up and ...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Bur...
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN It was just too awful for words.
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GORE VIDAL As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
GORE VIDAL Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.
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ANN RINALDI Old men need applause too
DON EVERLY We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
ABIGAIL ADAMS We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
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GILBERT GOTTFRIED We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH PROVERB I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.
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