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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Author: Jeanne Moreau
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Author: Hume Cronyn
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I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
Author: William Ernest Hocking
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Years and sins are always more than owned.
Author: Italian Proverb
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No man is ever old enough to know better.
Author: Holbrook Jackson
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Author: Thomas B. Aldrich
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Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.
Author: Sebastian Trabish
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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.
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
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I've never known a person who lives to 110 who is remarkable for anything else.
Author: Josh Billings
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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Author: Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
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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: J. F. Boyse
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The three ages of man: youth, middle age, and "You're looking wonderful!"
Author: Dore Schary
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Author: Cato The Elder
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The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
Author: John Barrymore
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Author: Maurice Chevalier
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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.
Author: Lydia M. Child
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Author: Bob Hope
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Author: Daniel Defoe
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Author: Lawrence Durrell
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.
Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
Author: George Eliot
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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.
Author: William Feather
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Author: James A. Garfield
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Author: John Greier
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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
Author: Elizabeth Jennings
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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.
Author: Maggie Kuhn
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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.
Author: Doris Lessing
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Author: Groucho Marx
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Author: Margaret Mead
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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Author: Golda Meir
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Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
Author: George Meredith
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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.
Author: Stu Mittleman
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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
Author: Eugene O'Neill
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Author: Arnold Palmer
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Author: Jean Paul
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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.
Author: Ralph B. Perry
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Author: Anthony Powell
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Author: Charles M. Schultz
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Author: J. P. Senn
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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)
Author: William Shakespeare
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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: Germaine De Stael
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Author: Abraham Sutzkever
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