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Age and aging

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thurber, James

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

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

Dressler, Marie

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

Sayers, Dorothy L.

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

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.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schulz, Charles M.

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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Brookner, Anita

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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.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Kent, Dorothea

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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.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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An old young man, will be a young old man.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Morgan, Arthur E.

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Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

Marx, Groucho

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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon, St.

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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?

Byron, Lord

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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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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Bleasdale, Alan

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

Powell, Anthony

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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Proverb, English

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

Rahel

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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

Carr, Emily

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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.

Lessing, Doris

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Updike, John

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Being seventy is not a sin.

Meir, Golda

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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

Burke, Billie

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Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Cope, Wendy

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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Neal, Patricia

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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.

Greer, Germaine

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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.

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

Vaughan, Henry