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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverb

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

Kanin, Garson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Cass, Eli

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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.

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

Hope, Bob

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

Chevalier, Maurice

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Mead, Margaret

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Osler, Sir William

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For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Dressler, Marie

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O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

Landor, Walter Savage

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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.

Marquis, Don

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Panin, Nikita Ivanovich

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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

Trotsky, Leon

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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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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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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Hope, Bob

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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