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Age and aging

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

Hazlitt, William

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Greer, Germaine

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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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.

Child, Lydia M.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Limbaugh, Rush

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Rostand, Jean

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.

Pepper, Claude D.

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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.