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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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I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Chopra, Deepak

No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

10.

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

11.

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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He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

Herbert, George

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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?

Harris, Sidney J.

14.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

15.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

16.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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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

18.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

Becker, May L.

20.

If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

21.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Beckett, Samuel

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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.

24.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

25.

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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At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

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Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Virgil

28.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit

29.

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Maurois, Andre

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

35.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

36.

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

Dressler, Marie

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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.

Edwards, Tryon

40.

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

Vaughan, Henry

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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Carey, Joyce

42.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

43.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Powell, Anthony

44.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Collins, Mortimer

45.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Hope, Bob

46.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca

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

Nuveen, John

49.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

Shakespeare, William

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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.