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Quite possibly, in those days, when his temper was more liable to explode into a spot of boots and fists, he might have helped them, just to get it out of his system. But as it happened the wheel turned the other way, toward the thought that two geezers kicking an old cove who was lying on the ground groaning were pox-ridden mucksnipes. So he had waded in and laid it on with a trowel... Terry Prachett
Charles Dickens quote: "Crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered..."
Crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest amd fairest are too often its chosen victims. Charles Dickens
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. Socrates
George: [On getting the M.B.E.]'After all we did for Great Britain, selling all that corduroy and making it swing, they gave us that bloody old leather medal with wooden string through it. But my initial reaction was, 'Oh, how nice, how nice.' And John's was, 'How nice, how nice. George Harrison
My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die. Peter Carey
They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of. Terry Prachett
Helen Keller quote: "Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out."
Good friends walk in when the old ones walk out. Helen Keller
Yoko Ono quote: "Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a..."
Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. Yoko Ono
She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Julian thought he could have stood his lot better if she had been selfish, if she had been an old hag who drank and screamed at him. He walked along, saturated in depression, as if in the midst of his martyrdom he had lost his faith. Flannery O'Connor
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact is that most putts don’t drop, most beef is tough, most children grow up to just be people, most successful marriages require a high degree of mutual toleration, most jobs are more often dull than otherwise. Life is like an old time rail journey…delays…sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling... Gordon B. Hinckley
And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her? Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne? L. M. Montgomery
John Keats quote: "His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,Unsceptred;..."
His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; John Keats
If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me. Jean Rhys

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