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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Irish

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Feather, William

Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Jung, Carl

Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep pedalling, you'll fall.

Pepper, Claude D.

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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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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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem --and in my esteem age is not estimable.

Byron, Lord

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Wilde, Oscar

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One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.

Moreau, Jeanne

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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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Old age is a shipwreck.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carter, Lillian

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Nicklaus, Jack

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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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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

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

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverb

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Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

Lin Yu-tang

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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Marquis, Don

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An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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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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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on-screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

Hackman, Gene

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

Weldon, Fay

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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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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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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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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.

Greer, Germaine

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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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They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Vaughan, Henry