The young may die, but the old must.

Longfellow

old

Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

~ Groucho Marx

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Journals

always

I always tell a young man not to use the word 'always'.

~ Sir Robert Walpole

The question was, would it bring a blush into the cheek

of the young person.


Dickens, our mutual Friend

question

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

~ G. B. Shaw

Guess now who holds thee

Death, I said, but there

the silver answer rang

"not death, but Love"

Browning

guess

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

~ Carl Sandburg

"What is the old king dead?"

"As nail in door."

WS

door

What fortitude the soul contains,
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming foot
The opening of a door...

~ E. Dickinson

IT (sorry i couldn't find another quote containing anything else)


"You know what they ought to have? Motherfucker's Day. The day after Mother's Day ought to be Motherfucker's Day. Actually, when you think about it, Father's Day is Motherfucker's Day.

-George Carlin

The roof, the roof the roof is on fire.

The roof the roof the roof is on fire,

We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn

Burn motherfucker burn.

roof

You and me and rain on the roof
Caught up in a summer shower
Drying while it soaks the flowers
Maybe we'll be caught for hours
Waiting out the sun...

~ Lovin' Spoonful

I believe that for every drop of rain that falls

A flower grows.

Harry Secombe

rain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

~ Mark Twain