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Age and aging

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Paul, Jean

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Hoagland, Edward

Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

Larkin, Philip

Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

Browning, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rostand, Jean

10.

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

11.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

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

Gabriel, Peter

15.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

16.

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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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

18.

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

19.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

21.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

22.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

23.

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

24.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

25.

I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

29.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

31.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

32.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Rubinstein, Helena

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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. [Reflecting on his former status as a teen idol]

Dillon, Matt

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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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You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

39.

In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

White, Elwyn Brooks

40.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

43.

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

Cass, Eli

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Carr, Emily

45.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

O'Neill, Eugene

48.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

49.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.