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Age and aging

It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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Best Quotes about Age and aging

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Kennedy, Rose F.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

Child, Lydia M.

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

11.

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

15.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

17.

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

18.

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

Rostand, Jean

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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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Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye,it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Kent, Dorothea

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

27.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

29.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

30.

It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

36.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

37.

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

38.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Ullman, Samuel

40.

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

41.

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

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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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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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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

45.

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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But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Viorst, Judith

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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