"Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing."

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Source : "Age of Reason". The New Yorker, (p. 103), October 22, 2007.

Jacques Barzun

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“I do like working out. I feel my best when I work out, but you know, I'm human. I like to ride my bicycle and lift weights and hike. When I am diligently working out, ideally, I like to work out four days a week. If I can do that, I feel good about myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.”

Source : Robert Hugh Benson (1912). “The Friendship of Christ”
“For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.”
“After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.”
“We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!”
“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”
“Keeping a journal implies hope.”
“Sorrow like a ceaseless rain Beats upon my heart. People twist and scream in pain-- Dawn will find them still again; This has neither wax nor wane, Neither stop nor start.”

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