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It is always in season for old men to learn.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Agamemnon
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The old are in a second childhood.
Author: Aristophanes
Source: The Clouds (l. 1417)
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Weak withering age no rigid law forbids.
With frugal nectar, smooth and slow with balm,
The sapless habit daily to bedew,
And give the hesitating wheels of life
Gliblier to play.
Author: John Armstrong
Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 484)
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What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?
Yes; but not this alone.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Growing Old
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On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine
cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very
small for its age," said Gnathaena.
Author: Athenaeus
Source: Deipnosophists (XIII, 46)
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,
and old authors to read.
Author: Athenaeus
Source: Deipnosophists (XIII, 46)
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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.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essay XLII--Of Youth and Age
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Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.
Author: James Beattie
Source: The Minstrel (bk. I, st. 25)
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Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!
Author: Pierre Jean de Beranger
Source: Cinquante Ans.
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And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Author: Bible
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XXXIV, v. 7)
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Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it
with pleasure.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. IX, v. 10)
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And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried
in a good old age.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. XV, v. 15)
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Author: Bible
Source: Genesis (ch. XVIII, v. 11)
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And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not
wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. I, v. 3)
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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by
reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength
labour and sorrow; for it soon cut off, and we fly away.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XC, v. 10)
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So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XC, v. 12)
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.
Author: Isaac Bickerstaff
Source: Maid of the Mill (act I, II)
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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 88)
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each love one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth as I am now.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 98)
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He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 5)
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. . . Years steal
Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb;
And life's enchanted cut but sparkles near the brim.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 8)
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Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo,
Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 12)
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Just as old age is creeping on space,
And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,
They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,
But in good company--the gout or stone.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto III, st. 59)
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My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker, and the grief
Are mine alone!
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: On this day I complete my Thirty-sixth Year
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For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
And out of old bokis, in good fey,
Comyth al this newe science that men lere.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Parlement of Fowles (l. 21)
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Author: Jerry M. Wright
Source: None
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Youth is wasted on the young.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Author: Beverly Sills
Source: None
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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.
Author: Lillian Smith
Source: None
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Author: Muriel Spark
Source: None
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
Author: Casey Stengel
Source: None
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Age considers; youth ventures.
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Source: None
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Author: Tom Stoppard
Source: None
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Author: Paul Tillich
Source: None
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Author: James Thurber
Source: None
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Author: Liv Tyler
Source: None
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Author: Samuel Ullman
Source: None
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Author: Judith Viorst
Source: None
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
Author: Pope Paul VI
Source: None
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Author: Bill Vaughn
Source: None
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Author: Francois Voltaire
Source: None
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Source: None
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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Author: Fay Weldon
Source: None
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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.
Author: Bob Wells
Source: None
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Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Author: Margaret Willour
Source: None
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