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- Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
- The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
- Edwina Currie, in Observer, 1988
- It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
- It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
- Keri Hulme, The Bone People, 1983
- About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
- Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979
- We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
- Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
- Paulette Bates Alden, 'Legacies,' Feeding the Eagles, 1988
- Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
- Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
- Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
- Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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