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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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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

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

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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

Twain, Mark

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

14.

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

Cass, Eli

15.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Chopra, Deepak

16.

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

17.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

18.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John

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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.

20.

Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ye cannot enter the kingdom of God. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

28.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Arden, Elizabeth

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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Desmoulins, Camille

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

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I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

Thurber, James

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

Bible

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Twain, Mark

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Swift, Jonathan

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He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.

Dana, Bill

42.

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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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Minds ripen at very different ages.

Montagu, Elizabeth

45.

At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Jennings, Elizabeth

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

47.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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.