#old

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old. ↗

— Keith David

#actually #i #old #two #wanted

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ↗

— Josh Billings

#cards #consists #good #hold #holding

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. ↗

— Josh Billings

#best time #bust #feel #hold #must

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. ↗

— Josh Billings

#ever #find #happiness #her #hunting

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. ↗

— Josh Billings

#dog #every #few #meets #old

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. ↗

— Josh Billings

#bad #enough #fall #ferment #forbid

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ↗

— Josh Billings

#old #scandal #sweeten #tea #their

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#been #before #chance #children #country

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#around #been #family #friends #good