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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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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

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Proverb, German

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Bierce, Ambrose

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

Byron, Lord

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Mortimer, John

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Cato The Elder

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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

Byron, Lord

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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

Hope, Bob

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

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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.

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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

Billings, Josh

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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Hawn, Goldie

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Nuveen, John

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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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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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

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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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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

Dix, Dorothy

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

Dressler, Marie

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

Burns, George

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing

49.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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