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Age and aging

An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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

Woolf, Virginia

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Ullman, Samuel

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

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.

Depardieu, Gerard

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

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

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

Young, Edward

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Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

11.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

Hope, Bob

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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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I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Desmoulins, Camille

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

Pepper, Claude D.

19.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Wharton, Edith

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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

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

Proverb

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

24.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Twain, Mark

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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.

Edwards, Tryon

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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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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Greier, John

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Thurber, James

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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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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.

Byron, Lord

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Chevalier, Maurice

32.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Bunuel, Luis

33.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Meyers, Ernest

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

Becker, May L.

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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Astaire, Fred

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Romulo, Carlos Pena

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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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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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Noonan, Peggy

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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity -- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Perry, Ralph B.

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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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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Buruch, Andre B.

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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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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

Mortimer, John