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Age and aging

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Ali, Muhammad

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.

Lessing, Doris

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.

Faulkner, William

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Burns, George

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Boyse, J. F.

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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

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There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Loren, Sophia

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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Kanin, Garson

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Hoagland, Edward

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I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Gabriel, Peter

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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.

Bonstettin

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Young, Edward

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Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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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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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Lerner, Max

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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Cass, Eli

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The trick is growing up without growing old.