Strange Old Vehicles

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative. - Maurice Chevalier

A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty. - Erasmus

A new toy is something a child uses to break his old toys. - Joe-kster

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

When 900 years old, you reach... Look as good, you will not. - Yoda

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted. - Hope Mirrlees

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you. - Dave Chappelle

All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld

I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened. - Mark Twain

We look forward to a disorderly, vigorous, unhonored and disreputable old age. - Don Marquis

Advanced old age is when you sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going. - Eliakim Katz

A two-year old is kind of like a blender, but you don't have any top for it. - Jerry Seinfeld

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk. - Chavela Vargas

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

When we grow old, there can only be one regret: not to have given enough of ourselves. - Eleonora Duse

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. - Samuel Butler

The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young. - Paul Dickson

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life. - Hunter S. Thompson

Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. - Malcolm Forbes

You're getting old when the only thing you want for your birthday is not to be reminded of it. - Felix Severn

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. - French Proverb

When it comes to old age we're all in the same boat, only some of us have been aboard a little longer. - Leo Probst

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange. - Dan Gable

When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old lady had to help me across the street. - Steven Wright

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. - Dorothy L Sayers

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. - George Burns

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes. - Tommy Douglas

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s. - Leonard Nimoy

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley