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“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese”
Billie Burke Quotes |
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“That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart”
Richard Steele, Sr. Quotes |
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“Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
Groucho Marx Quotes |
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“It is always in season for old men to learn.”
Aeschylus Quotes Source: Agamemnon
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“The old are in a second childhood.”
Aristophanes Quotes 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.”
John Armstrong Quotes 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.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes 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.”
Athenaeus Quotes 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.”
Athenaeus Quotes 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.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essay XLII--Of Youth and Age
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“Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.”
James Beattie Quotes 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!”
Pierre Jean de Beranger Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes 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.”
Bible Quotes Source: Psalms (ch. XC, v. 10)
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