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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

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Browning, Robert

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Carter, Lillian

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Browning, Robert

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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Child, Lydia M.

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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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It takes a long time to become young.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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.

18.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying.

Proverb, Irish

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Arnold, Thomas

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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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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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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

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

33.

Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

34.

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

35.

Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Woolf, Virginia

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Eliot, T. S.

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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

Proverb

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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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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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

Burns, George

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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.