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Age and aging

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

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

Wordsworth, William

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Ball, Lucille

There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

The older you get the stronger the wind gets -- and it's always in your face.

Nicklaus, Jack

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

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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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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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

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I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Murphy, Eddie

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Young

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

Byron, Lord

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

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Becker, May L.

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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

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Richards, Keith

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Young, Edward

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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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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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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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

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

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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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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.

Shakespeare, William

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Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Herzen, Alexander

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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fonda, Jane

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Hawn, Goldie

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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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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Defoe, Daniel

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

Astaire, Fred