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Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. -- Anouk Aimee
Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person. -- Samantha Fox
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. -- Elizabeth Moon
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. -- Andre Maurois
As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it. -- James Rosenquist
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice. -- Zooey Deschanel
From a person standpoint, the old expression of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is somewhat true. -- Vince McMahon
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be. -- Bill Ayers
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is. -- Leon Redbone
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. -- Terry Brooks
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person. -- Warren Farrell
Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background. -- Kathy Reichs
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
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
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
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
I think in the acting world you either manage that transition to older roles, or you stick with what you've always done and then discover nobody can bear you doing it as an older person. -- Felicity Kendal
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. -- Deepak Chopra
How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. -- Robert Walpole
Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. -- Georgette Heyer
To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience... -- Thomas Hardy
In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations -- George Santayana

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