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You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Author: Bob Hope
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Author: Doug Larson
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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Author: Margaret Mead
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After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Author: Bette Midler
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Age mellows some people; others it makes rotten. -Heard in Arkansas.
Author: Heard In Arkansas
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Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.
Author: Diana Cooper
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Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.
Author: Wall Stress Journal
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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By the time we've made it, we've had it. -Malcolm Forbes.
Author: Malcolm Forbes
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
Author: Chinese Proverb
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I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Author: Lady Astor
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
Author: Bill Cosby
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Author: Harrison Ford
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Author: Victor Hugo
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.
Author: Edith Wharton
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The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.
Author: H. J. Byron
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God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
Author: Arabic Proverb
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If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor.
Author: Adolph Zukor
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.
Author: Mark Twain
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Author: H. L. Mencken
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It takes a long time to become young.
Author: Pablo Picasso
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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.
Author: T. S. Eliot
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Author: George Burns
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
Author: Josh Billings
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Author: Herbert Asquith
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Author: Emily Dickinson
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Author: C. S. Lewis
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All diseases run into one, old age.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Author: Jane Fonda
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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
Author: Plato
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
Author: Shakespeare
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Author: Truman Capote
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
Author: Andrew Carnegie
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