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Age and aging

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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Astaire, Fred

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Brown, Rita Mae

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Christie, Agatha

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Brown, Les

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Proverb

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

Collins, Mortimer

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

Selznick, Irene Mayer

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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.

21.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

23.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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.

27.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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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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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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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

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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It is a bore, I admit, to be past seventy, for you are left for execution, and are daily expecting the death-warrant; but it is not anything very capital we quit. We are, at the close of life, only hurried away from stomach-aches, pains in the joints, from sleepless nights and unamusing days, from weakness, ugliness, and nervous tremors; but we shall all meet again in another planet, cured of all our defects.

Smith, Sydney

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

Burke, Billie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

Gabriel, Peter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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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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Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.

Edwards, Tryon