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Age and Aging
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Addison, Joseph
1672-1719 British Essayist Poet Statesman
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
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Aimee, Anouk
1932 French Actor
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
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Alcott, Amos Bronson
1799-1888 American Educator Social Reformer
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
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Alcott, Amos Bronson
1799-1888 American Educator Social Reformer
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
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Aldrich, Thomas B.
1836-1907 American Writer Editor
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
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Ali, Muhammad
1942 American Boxer
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Allen, Hervey
1889-1949 American Author
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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Amiel, Henri Frederic
1821-1881 Swiss Philosopher Poet Critic
I m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You re as old as you feel.
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Arden, Elizabeth
1876-1966 Canadian-born American Beautician and Businesswoman
One s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
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Arnold, Thomas
1795-1842 British Educator Scholar
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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Arnold, Thomas
1795-1842 British Educator Scholar
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you ve got to start young.
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Astaire, Fred
1899-1987 American Dancer Singer Actor
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
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Astor, Lady Nancy
1897-1964 British Politician
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
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Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit
1782-1871 French Composer
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.
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Auden, W. H.
1907-1973 Anglo-American Poet
Age will not be defied.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
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.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
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Ball, Lucille
1911-1989 American Actress Producer
Old age is the verdict of life.
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Barr, Amelia E.
1831-1919 Anglo-American Novelist
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Baruch, Bernard M.
1870-1965 American Financier
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.
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Beauvoir, Simone De
1908-1986 French Novelist Essayist
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.
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Beauvoir, Simone De
1908-1986 French Novelist Essayist
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
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Becker, May L.
We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
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Beckett, Samuel
1906-1989 Irish Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Beckett, Samuel
1906-1989 Irish Dramatist Novelist
I hope I never get so old I get religious.
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Bergman, Ingmar
1918 Swedish Stage Film Writer Director
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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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
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]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]
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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
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Bierce, Ambrose
1842-1914 American Author Editor Journalist The Devil's Dictionary
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
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Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
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Billings, Josh
1815-1885 American Humorist Lecturer
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
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Bleasdale, Alan
1946 British Playwright Novelist
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.
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Bonstettin
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.
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Boyse, J. F.
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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Brookner, Anita
1938 British Novelist Art Historian
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
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Brown, Captain J.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
I believe the true function of age is memory. I m recording as fast as I can.
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Brown, Rita Mae
1944 American Writer
A woman s always younger than a man at equal years.
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
1806-1861 British Poet
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
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.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
Grow old with me the best is yet to come.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Buck, Pearl S.
1892-1973 American Novelist
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
1803-1873 British Novelist Poet
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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Bunuel, Luis
1900-1983 Spanish Film Director
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
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Burke, Billie
Age doesn t matter, unless you re cheese.
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Burke, Billie
Age is something that doesn t matter, unless you are a cheese
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Burke, Billie
It s good to be here. At 98, it s good to be anywhere.
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Burns, George
1896-1996 American Comedy Actor
You can t help getting older, but you don t have to get old.
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Burns, George
1896-1996 American Comedy Actor
How can I die? I m booked.
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Burns, George
1896-1996 American Comedy Actor
By the time you re eighty years old you ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Burns, George
1896-1996 American Comedy Actor
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Burroughs, John
1837-1921 American Naturalist Author
To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
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Buruch, Andre B.
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.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
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.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
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.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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Carey, Joyce
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
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Carr, Emily
1871-1945 Canadian Artist
Every time I think that I m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
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Carter, Lillian
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
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Cass, Eli
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
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Cato The Elder
BC 234-149 Roman Statesman Orator
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven.
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Chapin, Edwin Hubbel
1814-1880 American Author Clergyman
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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Chesterfield, Lord
1694-1773 British Statesman Author
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
Old age isn t so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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Chevalier, Maurice
1888-1972 French Singer Actor
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Child, Lydia M.
1802-1880 American Abolitionist Writer Editor
Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Child, Lydia M.
1802-1880 American Abolitionist Writer Editor
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
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Chopra, Deepak
East-Indian- American MD New Age Author Lecturer
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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Chopra, Deepak
East-Indian- American MD New Age Author Lecturer
Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.
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Chopra, Deepak
East-Indian- American MD New Age Author Lecturer
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Christie, Agatha
1891-1976 British Mystery Writer
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
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Christie, Agatha
1891-1976 British Mystery Writer
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
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Churchill, Winston
1874-1965 British Statesman Prime Minister
The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey s end.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
1772-1834 British Poet Critic Philosopher
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.
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Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
1873-1954 French Author
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
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Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
1873-1954 French Author
A man s as old as he s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Collins, Mortimer
1827-1876 British Novelist Poet
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
I m aiming by the time I m fifty to stop being an adolescent.
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Cope, Wendy
1945 British Poet
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
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Curtis, George William
1824-1892 American Journalist
He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
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Dana, Bill
I m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
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Dangerfield, Rodney
American Comedian Actor
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.
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Darrow, Clarence
1857-1938 American Lawyer
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you ll grow out of it!
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Day, Doris
1924 American Singer Film Actress
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Defoe, Daniel
1661-1731 British Author
Keep on raging -- to stop the aging.
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Delltones, The
At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.
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Depardieu, Gerard
1948 French Screen Actor
I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
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Desmoulins, Camille
1760-1794 French Journalist Revolutionary Leader
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
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Dickens, Charles
1812-1870 British Novelist
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]
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Dillon, Matt
1964 American Actor
The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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Disraeli, Benjamin
1804-1881 British Statesman Prime Minister
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.
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Dix, Dorothy
1861-1951 American Columnist
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life s latest sands are its sands of gold!
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Dorr, Julia C. R.
1825-1913 American Poet Novelist
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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Dressler, Marie
1869-1934 Canadian Stage and Film Actor
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
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Dressler, Marie
1869-1934 Canadian Stage and Film Actor
Old age is an insult. It s like being smacked.
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Durrell, Lawrence
1912-1990 British Author
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.
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Edwards, Tryon
1809-1894 American Theologian
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
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Edwards, Tryon
1809-1894 American Theologian
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
I m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
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.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
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.
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Eliot, T. S.
1888-1965 American-born British Poet Critic
I don t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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Eliot, T. S.
1888-1965 American-born British Poet Critic
We do not count a man s years until he has nothing else to count.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
The age of a woman doesn t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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Engel, Sigmund Z.
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.
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Erasmus, Desiderius
c1466-1536 Dutch Humanist
If youth knew; if age could.
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Estienne, Henri
1531-1598 French Scholar Publisher
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can t know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world s anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
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Faulkner, William
1897-1962 American Novelist
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.
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Feather, William
1888-18 American Writer Businessman
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it s such a nice change from being young.
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Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
1879-1958 American Writer
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.
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Fonda, Jane
1937 American Screen Actor
Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
If you wouldn t live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
An old young man, will be a young old man.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
I guess I don t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
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Gabriel, Peter
1950 British Rock Musician
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.
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Galbraith, John Kenneth
1908 American Economist
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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Garfield, James A.
1831-1881 Twentieth President of the USA
Old age is a shipwreck.
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Gaulle, Charles De
1890-1970 French President during World War II
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Golding, William
1911-1993 British Author
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.
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Gracian, Baltasar
1601-1658 Spanish Philosopher Writer
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.
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Greer, Germaine
1939 Australian Feminist Writer
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.
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Greer, Germaine
1939 Australian Feminist Writer
The older woman s love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover s eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn t have missed it for the world.
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Greer, Germaine
1939 Australian Feminist Writer
You re only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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Greier, John
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.
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Hackman, Gene
1930 American Actor
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
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Hardy, Thomas
1840-1928 British Novelist Poet
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
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Harris, Corra May
1869-1935 American Author
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?
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Harris, Sidney J.
1917 American Journalist
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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Harrison, Jane
1850-1928 British Classical Scholar Writer
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.
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Hawn, Goldie
1945 American Actress
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.
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Haydon, Benjamin
1786-1846 British Artist
Age is not important unless you re a cheese.
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Hayes, Helen
1900-1993 American Actress
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
The worst old age is that of the mind.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
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Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
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.
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Herbert, George
1593-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
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.
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Hershfield, Harry
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.
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Herzen, Alexander
1812-1870 Russian Journalist Political Thinker
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
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Hoagland, Edward
1932 American Novelist Essayist
Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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Hoffer, Eric
1902-1983 American Author Philosopher
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
1809-1894 American Author Wit Poet
You know you re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
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Hope, Bob
1903 American Comedian Actor
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
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Hope, Bob
1903 American Comedian Actor
I don t generally feel anything until noon, then it s time for my nap.
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Hope, Bob
1903 American Comedian Actor
Growing old is not growing up.
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Horton, Doug
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
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Huang Ti
BC 2700-2600 Chinese Yellow Emperor
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
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Hugo, Victor
1802-1885 French Poet Dramatist Novelist
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.
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Inge, Dean William R.
1860-1954 Dean of St Paul's London
Whenever a man s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
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Irving, Washington
1783-1859 American Author
How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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Jefferson, Thomas
1743-1826 Third President of the USA
At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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Jennings, Elizabeth
1926 British Poet
Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
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Jewett, Sarah Orne
1849-1909 American Author
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
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Johnson
Talking is the disease of age.
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Johnson, Ben
1600-British Clergyman Poet
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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Jung, Carl
1875-1961 Swiss Psychiatrist
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.
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Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
c55-c130 Roman Satirical Poet
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
c55-c130 Roman Satirical Poet
In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can t say which was more exquisite.
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Kangas, Steve
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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Kanin, Garson
1912 American Playwright/Screenwriter Stage/Movie Director
I m like old wine. They don t bring me out very often, but I m well preserved.
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Kennedy, Rose F.
1890-1995 Mother of President John F Kennedy
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
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Kent, Dorothea
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
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Kierkegaard, Soren
1813-1855 Danish Philosopher Writer
The quality, not the longevity, of one s life is what is important.
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King Jr. Martin Luther
1929-1968 American Black Leader Nobel Prize Winner 1964
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
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Kollwitz, KaThe
1867-1945 German Artist
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
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Kronenberger, Louis
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
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Kuhn, Maggie
1905 American Civil Rights Activist Author
Old age is not a disease -- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
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Kuhn, Maggie
1905 American Civil Rights Activist Author
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Few people know how to be old.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
O what a thing is age! Death without death s quiet.
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Landor, Walter Savage
1775-1864 British Poet Essayist
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can t quite name.
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Larkin, Philip
1922-1986 British Poet
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
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Larson, Doug
It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
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Lehrer, Tom
1928 American Musician Song Writer
When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
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Leith, Prue
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
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Lerner, Max
1902 American Author Columnist
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.
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Lessing, Doris
1919 British Novelist
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.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
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.
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Lichtenberg, Georg C.
1742-1799 German Physicist Satirist
I have found it to be true that the older I ve become the better my life has become.
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Limbaugh, Rush
1951 American TV Personality
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.
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Lin Yu-tang
1895-1976 Chinese Writer and Philologist
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
1819-1892 American Poet
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.
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Loren, Sophia
1934 Italian Film Actress
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
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Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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Macdonald, George
1824-1905 Scottish Novelist
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.
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Macdonald, George
1824-1905 Scottish Novelist
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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Marquis, Don
1878-1937 American Humorist Journalist
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
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Marx, Groucho
1895-1977 American Comic Actor
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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Marx, Groucho
1895-1977 American Comic Actor
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874-1965 British Novelist Playwright
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Maugham, W. Somerset
1874-1965 British Novelist Playwright
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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