I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas MacArthur
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
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In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E.B. White
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The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier, New York Times, 9 October 1960
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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
Charles Dickens
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Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Author Unknown
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~Robert Southey, The Doctor
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
Satchel Paige
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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
Charles Dickens
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Jerry M. Wright
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
Caryn Leschen
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
Franklin Adams
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Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Proverb
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There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fulheim
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. J.B. Priestly
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Author Unknown
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
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By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. Author Unknown
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.
Author Unknown
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The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
Judith Regan
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. Mark Twain
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It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Asquith
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
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There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. From the movie Out to Sea
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Thanks Janice!)
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The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
Edmund Waller
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
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Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
Astrid Alauda
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum
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An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954
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Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. G. Norman Collie
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You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
Author Unknown
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T.S. Eliot
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark
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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
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I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.
Dave Barry
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm
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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Amiel
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark
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Age swallows our childhood.
Jareb Teague
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First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you foret to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
Leo Rosenberg
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. Marty Bucella
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Aurelius Augustine
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
Author Unknown
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. Charles Lamb
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It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Autumn Within"
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler, Notebooks
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
Author Unknown
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958
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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
John Fischer
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Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
Attributed to John Wagner
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
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Old Time, who changes all below,
To wean men gently for the grave.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius
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When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
Laurence Olivier
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As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
Erma Bombeck
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Author Unknown
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
Author Unknown
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The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now."
David Grayson
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Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
Billy Casper, about golf's Senior Tour
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Author Unknown
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.
Martin H. Fischer
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One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
Liz Smith
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
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Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
François La Rochefoucauld
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Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
Author Unknown
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Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Allen
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I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast.
Author Unknown
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Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
Donald Justice, "Men at Forty"
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Age is a prison from which we cannot escape.
Morrow Bourne
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
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An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
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I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.
Author Unknown
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Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken
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Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. Author Unknown
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. Chinese Proverb
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
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Age attacks when we least expect it.
Carrie Latet
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Old age ain't no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
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The last birthday that's any good is 23.
Andy Rooney
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
William Allen White
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Edward Young, Night Thoughts
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Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Attributed to John Wagner
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
Arnold Palmer
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. Jennifer Yane
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Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not.
Author Unknown
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.
Douglas MacArthur
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Alexander Pope
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.
Jason Love
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It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.
Vin Scully
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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
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All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The number one factor in aging is burdens. Your burdens, or how you carry them, make you old. Scarlett Bene
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The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
Li Po
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In dog years, I'm dead.
Author Unknown
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If youth but know,
And old age only could.
Henri Estienne
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Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.
Michel de Montaigne
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
Dave Barry
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The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
Mortimer Collins
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A man is as old as he's feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins
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When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
Author Unknown
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. Ravensara Noite
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
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Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle
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The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S. McCandless
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
Bernard Berenson
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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Author Unknown
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.
Margaret Atwood
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P.G. Wodehouse
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
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You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
Lillian Gish
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696
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Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.
Carrie Latet
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo L. Black
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In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.
Holden Rinehart
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
Rick Majerus
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We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
Bob Bowen
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
Edward Grey
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The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908
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Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.
Author Unknown
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I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
Phyllis Diller
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Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. Andre Maurois
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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
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It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Jack Nicklaus
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You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary
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It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
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I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. Logan Pearsall Smith
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Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?"
William Habington
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Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you
Bennett Cerf
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I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
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There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughn
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
Jules Feiffer
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Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Margaret Willour
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu
