Aphorisms
“Oh humans! Why do you fear hardships when you were
born with a cry?”
“Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poke me
in the ribs and cackle, telling me, ‘You’re next.’ They
stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at
funerals.”
“Old enough to know better; young enough to try it again.”
“Old feelings never die, you just learn to cope with them.”
“On a bright day shadows are at their darkest, but even in
the darkest of days there must be a light to see the
shadow.”
“On matters of style, swim with the current; on matters of
principle, stand like a rock.”
“On the other hand, you have different fingers.”
“Once I reach the top, yet there is a top to be created by
me.”
“Once in a while you have to close your eyes to see better.”
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times
is enemy action.”
“Once you cross the line, there’s no going back.”
“Once you decide, you’ve got to live and die with it.”
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
“One advantage to being 102 . . . there’s no peer
pressure.”
“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a
man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may
confidently say that he is a good man.”
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