“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Variant: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
“They signed the unwind order just to spite each other, but laugh, laugh, laugh, Hayden, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart worse than a Chop Shop.”
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