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- ...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
- I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.
- John Waters
- The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
- G.K. Chesterton
- The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The French are just useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.
- Elton John
- Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
- Eli Wallach
- While I am not a fan of corporal punishment, I am not a fan of his friends Major Nuisance or General Disturbance.
- Elaine Richards
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