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  • There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray. -- Edward Lear
  • There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels. -- Edward Lear
  • There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. -- Elizabeth Moon
  • Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. -- Bill Ayers
  • If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person. -- Rolf Harris
  • Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is. -- Leon Redbone
  • Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. -- Dave Barry
  • Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.' -- Bill Cosby
  • All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. -- Maya Angelou
  • I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that. -- Evel Knievel
  • I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated. -- Reeva Steenkamp
  • I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life. -- Ellie Goulding
  • I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years. -- Gary Numan
  • The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing. -- James Hillman
  • I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them. -- Harmony Korine
  • Never let an old person live in your body. -- Michael Savage
  • Treat each person as you would an old friend. -- Dalai Lama
  • I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers. -- William S. Burroughs
  • Refuse to let an old person move into your body. -- Wayne Dyer
  • ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down. -- Alex Haley
  • Like the pioneers of old, a creative person breaks new ground daily. -- Anna Olson
  • Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old. -- James Farley
  • I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage. -- John Kasich
  • Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls -- Robert Walser
  • A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism. -- Tony Campolo
  • Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. -- Joe Dunthorne
  • I look as young as a person can look given how old I am. -- Nora Ephron
  • Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old. -- John Green
  • I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person. -- Talib Kweli
  • When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person. -- Samantha Fox
  • Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game. -- Louise Bates Ames
  • Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game -- Louise Bates Ames
  • Every 70-year-old needs a young person in their lives to mentor, and every 20-year-old needs a senior. -- Shane Claiborne
  • I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person. -- Lissie
  • None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell. -- David Levithan
  • A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. -- Andre Maurois
  • I'm a very honorable person. I have lifelong friends from birth, from grammar school, from five years old. -- Tony Vlachos
  • From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true. -- Vince McMahon
  • If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. -- Buster Keaton
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  • As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold. -- Vayalar Ravi
  • Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person. -- Warren Farrell
  • A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase. -- Anonymous
  • I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God. -- Heidi Montag
  • A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain -- Stephen King
  • At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job. -- Michael Crichton
  • I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old. -- Lykke Li
  • Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background. -- Kathy Reichs
  • Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet". -- Bob Dylan
  • It's easier to fall back into old behaviors when you come back to a place where you were a shorter person. -- Joseph Dougherty
  • A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage. -- Irving Kristol
  • Bones tell me the story of a person's life â?? how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background, -- Kathy Reichs
  • Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist. -- Bill Maher
  • I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person. -- Betty Wright
  • When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out. -- Criss Jami
  • The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell. -- Ravi Zacharias
  • The person who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age. -- Pablo Casals
  • Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's. -- Deepak Chopra
  • We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. -- Paige Butcher
  • A person dies every second, but thereâ??s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind. -- Craig Stone
  • Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts. -- Woody Allen
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  • The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom. -- Reese Witherspoon
  • It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul. -- Anton Chekhov
  • I'm 24 years old and yeah, I'm a different person and I'm definitely more mature, but these are the tops that I'm going to keep on wearing. -- Kendra Wilkinson
  • I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent and twisted, but I can stop that. -- Ruth Rendell
  • Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it. -- Alexis Bledel
  • If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from. -- S. Jay Olshansky
  • an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her. -- Fanny Burney
  • Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing. -- Quincy Jones
  • I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. -- Eben Alexander
  • In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person. -- Cathy Hopkins
  • It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing. -- Bruce Forsyth
  • I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old. -- Sebastian Horsley
  • You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!' -- Maya Rudolph
  • Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close." "Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either. -- Janet Evanovich
  • laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears ... -- Margaret Oliphant
  • People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. -- Jo Brand
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  • For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type. -- Tennessee Williams
  • You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called. -- James Hillman
  • The only person who can say they're happy getting old is someone who isn't actually old yet. Every day, I get less and less happy about that idea. -- Nick Cave
  • The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, videlicet, in a love-cause. -- William Shakespeare
  • As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice. -- Christy Turlington
  • In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships." -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Snow Flower was my old same for life. I had a greater and deeper love for her than I could ever feel for a person who was my husband. -- Lisa See
  • The old style hypocrite was a person who tried to appear better than he actually was; the new style hypocrite tries to appear worse than he or she is. -- Charles Templeton
  • A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow. -- Liu Zongyuan
  • The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult. -- Colin Quinn
  • It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet. -- Alice Walker
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  • When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb. -- Victor Hugo
  • Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday. -- Jeff Foxworthy
  • I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths. -- John Cusack
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