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

Defoe, Daniel

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

Stael, Germaine De

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

Vaughan, Henry

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Pope, Alexander

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Fonda, Jane

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible

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

10.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Schulz, Charles M.

12.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shakespeare, William

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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Proverb

18.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Yeats, William Butler

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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Eliot, T. S.

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

How can I die? I'm booked.

Burns, George

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Of all the barbarous middle ages, that which is most barbarous is the middle age of man! it is -- I really scarce know what; but when we hover between fool and sage, and don't know justly what we would be at -- a period something like a printed page, black letter upon foolscap, while our hair grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.

Byron, Lord

30.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Seneca

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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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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

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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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Age considers; youth ventures.

Raupach

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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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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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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Inge, Dean William R.

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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible

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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Lehrer, Tom

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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

Meredith, George

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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Young, Edward

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It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

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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.