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Age and aging

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

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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

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.

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

Yeats, William Butler

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

Thoreau, Henry David

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Cope, Wendy

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mcdonald, Trevor

Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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The trick is growing up without growing old.

Stengel, Casey

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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Woolf, Virginia

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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

Shakespeare, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

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Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Mittleman, Stu

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Old age is the verdict of life.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Palmer, Arnold

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Stone, I. F.

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I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Christie, Agatha

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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.

Hazlitt, William

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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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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Eliot, George

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Live your life and forget your age.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If youth knew; if age could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Child, Lydia M.

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

Tusser, Thomas

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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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People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Sutzkever, Abraham

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Growing old is not growing up.

Horton, Doug

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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.