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

Burns, George

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Kuhn, Maggie

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

10.

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

Hope, Bob

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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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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

Shakespeare, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

16.

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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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Mcdonald, Trevor

20.

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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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.

Fonda, Jane

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A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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

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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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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Overstreet, Harry A.

28.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Auden, W. H.

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How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

31.

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

Young, Edward

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I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine --and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so --and now the dross is coming.

Byron, Lord

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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Schulz, Charles M.

35.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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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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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

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Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Cope, Wendy

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.