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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.
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.
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.
H. J. Byron
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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.
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.
Mark Twain
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
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.
John F. Kennedy
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In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us. -Josh Billings.
Josh Billings
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis
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Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fonda
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The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. -Plato.
Plato
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Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance. -Shakespeare.
Shakespeare
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
Andrew Carnegie
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