"The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears."

Auden, W. H. on new year   

"Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."

Twain, Mark on age and aging
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"The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve."

Trevor-Roper, H. R. on genius   

"When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife."

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of on wives
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"The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new."

Thackeray, William M. on writers and writing   

"The creative person wants to be a know -it -all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth -century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen."

Ally, Carl on creativity
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"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!"

Stevenson, Adlai E. on life
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"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

Meyers, Ernest on age and aging
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice."

Eliot, T. S. on words   

"The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Bragg, Sir William on ideas