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| The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Alfred North Whitehead Quotes |
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| He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. Eschylus Quotes |
| Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us. Lily Tomlin Quotes |
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| It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle Quotes |
| Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everyt Charles Dickens Quotes |
| Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Phyllis Diller Quotes |
| Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt Herbert Hoover Quotes |
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| By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. Charles Wadsworth Quotes |
| It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford Quotes |
| There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
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| Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Lee Frost Quotes |
| Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
| People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Sydney J Harris Quotes |
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| Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney J Harris Quotes |
| In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago. Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes |
| Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. . . . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Audrey Hepburn Quotes |
| The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes |
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| The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unread as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes |
| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes |
| There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes |
| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. Victor Hugo Quotes |
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| Same old slippers, Same old rice, Same old glimpse of paradise. William James Lampton Quotes |
| The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson Quotes |
| The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth. Marvin D. Levy Quotes |
| It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. Audrey Hepburn Quotes |
| The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth. Henry Miller Quotes |
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| The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face. Jack Nicklaus Quotes |
| You don't stop laughing because you grow old; You grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard Quotes |
| A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Greek Proverb Quotes |
| A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand Quotes |
| Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. William Shakespeare Quotes |
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| It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
| Growing old is nothing more than mind over matter; If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Anonymous Quotes |
| Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. Sydney J Harris Quotes |
| The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Aldous Leonard Huxley Quotes |
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| Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake... Nelson Boswell Quotes |
| Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but a lack of will. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes |
| A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustine Quotes |
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| No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes |
| God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them. Audrey Hepburn Quotes |
| I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. Bob Hope Quotes |
| We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Don't worry about avoiding temptation...As you grow older, it will avoid you. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But ... everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. Author Unknown Quotes |
| By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. Author Unknown Quotes |
| It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. Author Unknown Quotes |
| At my age, every doctor says the same thing; It's either something I have to live with - or something I have to live without. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age. Lucile Ball Quotes |
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| As we grow older everything seems to wear out, fall out or spread out. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Birthdays are good for you. Studies show that the people who have the most live the longest. Author Unknown Quotes |
| My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
Her eyes beginning to water, she went on, "So I would like you all to make me a promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn't have to be something you see it could be a scent - perhaps of freshly baked bread wafting out of someone's house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the way the morning light catches the autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground.
Please look for these things, and cherish them. For, although it may sound trite to some, these things are the "stuff" of life. The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often take for granted. We must make it important to notice them, for at any time...it can all be taken away."
The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our books and filed out of the room silently. That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester.
Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an impression she made on all of us, and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all overlook. Take notice of something special you see on your lunch hour today. Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double-dip ice cream cone.
For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we often regret, but the things we didn't do. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Anonymous Quotes |
| Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes |
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| Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire. Joseph Addison Quotes |
| I have made a plan for my life, as I am in my teens, and no more a child. I am old for my age and don't care much for girls' things. People think I'm wild and queer; but mother understands and helps me. I have not told anyone about my plans but I am going to be good. . . . Now I'm going to work really, for I feel a desire to improve and be a help and comfort, not a care and sorrow to my dear mother. Louisa May Alcott Quotes |
| To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent — that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes |
| 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 |
| "Judges don't age; time decorates them." Enid Bagnold Quotes |
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| The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball Quotes |
| You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. James Barrie Quotes |
| Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard Baruch Quotes |
| As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. Robert Benchley Quotes |
| Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Jack Benny Quotes |
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| It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80. Patty Berg Quotes |
| Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. Ingmar Bergman Quotes |
| I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome. Milton Berle Quotes |
| "A woman's always younger than a man of equal years." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes |
| Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Pearl Buck Quotes |
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| If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway. Jimmy Buffett Quotes |
| If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. George Burns Quotes |
| By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. George Burns Quotes |
| You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there. George Burns Quotes |
| Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve. Coco Chanel Quotes |
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| I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. Agatha Christie Quotes |
| "Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows." William Jefferson Clinton Quotes |
| When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. Cyril Connolly Quotes |
| I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says, “Dad, I just can't run with you anymore unless I bring something to read.” Bill Cosby Quotes |
| "The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older." Hume Cronyn Quotes |
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| Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking. Annie Elizabeth Delany Quotes |
| Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. Albert Einstein Quotes |
| The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot Quotes |
| People between 20 and 40 are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do-after 40. Between 20 and 40 the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not yet begun to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between 20 and 40. William Faulkner Quotes |
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| Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. Jim Fiebig Quotes |
| Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. Johann von Goethe Quotes |
| "Age affects how people experience time. The observations on this are well known, so it is only necessary to outline briefly what has been the experience of everyone I have ever talked to or read about: the years go faster as one gets older. At the age of four or six, a year seems interminable; at sixty, the years begin to blend and are frequently hard to separate from each other because they move so fast! There are, of course, a number of common-sense explanations for this sort of thing. If you have only lived five years, a year represents 20 percent of your life; if you have lived fifty years, that same year represents only 2 percent of your life, and since lives are lived as wholes, this logarithmic element would make it difficult to maintain the same perspective on the experience of a year’s passage throughout a lifetime." Edward T. Hall Quotes |
GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer ;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may go marry :
For having lost but once your prime
You may for ever tarry. Robert Herrick Quotes |
| "Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me. A disenchantment falsified and blunted my usual feelings and joys: the garden lacked fragrance, the woods held no attraction for me, the world stood around me like a clearance sale of last year's secondhand goods, insipid, all its charm gone. Books were so much paper, music a grating noise. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits." Hermann Hesse Quotes |
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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." William Ernest Hocking Quotes |
| "No man is ever old enough to know better." Holbrook Jackson Quotes |
| They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority. Samuel Johnson Quotes |
| In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love. Carl Gustav Jung Quotes |
When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.
When all the world is old, lad,
And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
And all the wheels run down;
Creep home, and take your place there,
The spent and maimed amoung:
God grant you find one face there,
You loved when all was young. Charles Kingsley Quotes |
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| As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
Age is opportunity no less,
than youth itself, though in another dress.
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled by the stars invisible by the day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. Sophia Loren Quotes |
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| The lifelong process of caregiving, is the ultimate link between caregivers of all ages. You and I are not just in a phase we will outgrow. This is life—birth, death, and everything in between.... The care continuum is the cycle of life turning full circle in each of our lives. And what we learn when we spoon-feed our babies will echo in our ears as we feed our parents. The point is not to be done. The point is to be ready to do again. Paula C. Lowe Quotes |
| You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. General Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. General Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society... We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age. Don Marquis Quotes |
| One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. Lee Marvin Quotes |
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| After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. Bette Midler Quotes |
When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of all our burning there remains
No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
This be our solace: that it was not said
When we were young and warm and in our prime,
Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
Sleeping away the unreturning time. Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes |
| At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed! Ludwig von Mises Quotes |
| Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well.... Sir John Mortimer Quotes |
| Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get. Robert Orben Quotes |
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| Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. Claude Pepper Quotes |
Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on,
and shoves you from the stage:
leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. Alexander Pope Quotes |
| The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes |
| "The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped." Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes |
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
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The house of my body has spoken
often as you rebuild me like blocks,
and promise to come visit
when I'm finally adjusted on safe land,
and am livable, joist to joist
with storm windows and screens ... Anne Sexton Quotes |
| We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
| Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties. Thomas Sowell Quotes |
| The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day. C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon Quotes |
| The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel Quotes |
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Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down:
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes |
| One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both. Horace Walpole Quotes |
| "I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are Pink shades, thirty when there are not." Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| "That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. I see no reason why our dear Cecily should not be even still more attractive at the age you mention than she is at present. There will be a large accumulation of property. " Oscar Wilde Quotes |
MRS. ALLONBY: She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It was most annoying.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
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| Walk in the rain, jump in mud puddles, collect rocks, rainbows and roses, smell flowers, blow bubbles, stop along the way, build sandcastles, say hello to everyone, go barefoot, go on adventures, act silly, fly kites, have a merry heart, talk with animals, sing in the shower, read childrens' books, take bubble baths, get new sneakers, hold hands and hug and kiss, dance, laugh and cry for the health of it, wonder and wander around, feel happy and precious and innocent, feel scared, feel sad, feel mad, give up worry and guilt and shame, say yes, say no, say the magic words, ask lots of questions, ride bicycles, draw and paint, see things differently, fall down and get up again, look at the sky, watch the sun rise and sun set, watch clouds and name their shapes, watch the moon and stars come out, trust the universe, stay up late, climb trees, daydream, do nothing and do it very well, learn new stuff, be excited about everything, be a clown, enjoy having a body, listen to music, find out how things work, make up new rules, tell stories, save the world, make friends with the other kids on the block, and do anything else that brings more happiness, celebration, health, love, joy, creativity, pleasure, abundance, grace, self-esteem, courage, balance, spontaneity, passion, beauty, peace, relaxation, communication and life energy to...all living beings on this planet. Bruce Williamson Quotes |
| All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe Quotes |
| "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. George E. Woodberry Quotes |
Grant me an old man's frenzy,
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that William Blake
Who beat upon the wall
Till Truth obeyed his call;
A mind Michael Angelo knew
That can pierce the clouds,
Or inspired by frenzy
Shake the dead in their shrouds;
Forgotten else by mankind,
An old man's eagle mind.
William Butler Yeats Quotes |
| Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. Christopher Morley Quotes |
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| My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43. Ian Fleming Quotes |
| No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. W. Somerset Maugham Quotes |
| I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard Quotes |
| Where is the path to Grown-Up Land? How do I get there? Or will I just get old, not understanding that I'm no longer young? Tish Grier Quotes |
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| To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes |
| There is nothing better than birthday cake. It's like a slice of concentrated love with buttercream frosting. Author Unknown Quotes |
The older I get, the more I feel
almost beautiful... Sharon Olds Quotes |
| The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.' Scott Adams Quotes |
| The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. Saki Quotes |
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| People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. Russell Baker Quotes |
| In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. Roger Allen Quotes |
| The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth. Robinson Jeffers Quotes |
| An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. Plutarch Quotes |
| As we grow old…the beauty steals inward. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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| He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. Plato Quotes |
| I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. Pablo Casals Quotes |
| I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. George Burns Quotes |
| Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. George Santayana Quotes |
| It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. George Sand Quotes |
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| To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash Quotes |
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| Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. Miriam Makeba Quotes |
| You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard Quotes |
| Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. Ellen Glasgow Quotes |
| With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes |
| Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. George Burns Quotes |
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| It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes |
| I grow more intense as I age. Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes |
| Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. Maurice Chevalier Quotes |
| You're never too old to become younger. Mae West Quotes |
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| Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. Marilyn Ferguson Quotes |
| Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful. Marshall Ganz Quotes |
| No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. Lynn Johnston Quotes |
| I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. Louise Nevelson Quotes |
| The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
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| In 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 small ways. Edith Wharton Quotes |
| Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton Quotes |
| It is a sadness of growing older that we lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. Doris Lessing Quotes |
| I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' Earl Warren Quotes |
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| Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. Aristotle Quotes |
| To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Bernard M. Baruch Quotes |
| Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. Betty Friedan Quotes |
| There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. Carol Matthau Quotes |
| Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. Cyril Connolly Quotes |
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| Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. Abigail Van Buren Quotes |
| I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. Agatha Christie Quotes |
| You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. Anouk Aimee Quotes |
| The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H. L. Mencken Quotes |
| A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. Homer Quotes |
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| Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after. Homer Quotes |
| To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. Karl von Bonstetten Quotes |
| Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. Lillian Carter Quotes |
| 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. Dwight Eisenhower Quotes |
| You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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| Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. Margaret Willour Quotes |
| At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? Jules Feiffer Quotes |
| Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Bill Vaughn Quotes |
| True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. Kurt Vonnegut Quotes |
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| There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you Bennett Cerf Quotes |
| I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. Sheila Kaye-Smith Quotes |
| The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
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| Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst th Quotes |
| The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer. Joan Collins Quotes |
I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost Quotes |
| The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. Jack Nicklaus Quotes |
| You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. Timothy Leary Quotes |
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| It takes a long time to become young. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. Leon Edel Quotes |
| The trick is growing up without growing old. Casey Stengel Quotes |
| It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. Quoted by Raymond A. Michel in Quotes |
| You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. George Burns Quotes |
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| What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. Voltaire Quotes |
| You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. Bonnie Prudden Quotes |
| Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. Andre Maurois Quotes |
| Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli Quotes |
| The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. Richard Jefferies Quotes |
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| Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. Author Unknown Quotes |
| I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. Phyllis Diller Quotes |
| There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Quotes |
| I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. Edward Grey Quotes |
| They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression. Rick Majerus Quotes |
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| We are only young once. That is all society can stand. Bob Bowen Quotes |
| Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear. Holden Rinehart Quotes |
| When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. Carrie Latet Quotes |
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| When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. Hugo L. Black Quotes |
| Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Jonathan Swift Quotes |
| It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. Seigneur de Saint-Evremond Quotes |
| Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. Harold Coffin Quotes |
| You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. Lillian Gish Quotes |
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| We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups. Margaret Atwood Quotes |
| There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. P.G. Wodehouse Quotes |
| Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. Author Unknown Quotes |
| When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. Bernard Berenson Quotes |
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| Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. Ravensara Noite Quotes |
| The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want. L.S. McCandless Quotes |
| When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Henry Ford Quotes |
| I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all. Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes |
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| The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. Mortimer Collins Quotes |
A man is as old as he's feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins Quotes |
| Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. Dave Barry Quotes |
If youth but know,
And old age only could.
Henri Estienne Quotes |
| Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
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| Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. Mark Twain Quotes |
| In dog years, I'm dead. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. Robert Quillen Quotes |
| It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton Quotes |
| The number one factor in aging is burdens. Your burdens, or how you carry them, make you old. Scarlett Bene Quotes |
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The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
Li Po Quotes |
| It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. George Dennison Prentice Quotes |
| All diseases run into one, old age. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit. Jason Love Quotes |
| It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. Vin Scully Quotes |
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| Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Alexander Pope Quotes |
| Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. Author Unknown Quotes |
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In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them. Arnold Palmer Quotes |
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| It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live? Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. Jennifer Yane Quotes |
| As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. William Allen White Quotes |
| Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. Edward Young Quotes |
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| Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Attributed to John Wagner Quotes |
| The last birthday that's any good is 23. Andy Rooney Quotes |
| Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. Dan Bennett Quotes |
| Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson Quotes |
| Age attacks when we least expect it. Carrie Latet Quotes |
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| Old age ain't no place for sissies. Bette Davis Quotes |
| Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks. Jean Rhys Quotes |
| The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H.L. Mencken Quotes |
| Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. Chinese Proverb Quotes |
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| I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. Mignon McLaughlin Quotes |
| Age is a prison from which we cannot escape. Morrow Bourne Quotes |
| Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. Don Marquis Quotes |
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats Quotes |
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| I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast. Author Unknown Quotes |
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
Donald Justice, "Men at Forty" Quotes |
| There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. Franklin P. Adams Quotes |
| You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Allen Quotes |
| Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay. Daniel Defoe Quotes |
| We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson Quotes |
| In a dream you are never eighty. Anne Sexton Quotes |
| Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples. François La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
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| The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle Quotes |
| Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves. Martin H. Fischer Quotes |
| One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless. Liz Smith Quotes |
| Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers. Billy Casper Quotes |
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| Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote Quotes |
| They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now." David Grayson Quotes |
| As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. Erma Bombeck Quotes |
| You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Author Unknown Quotes |
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| Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. Graham Greene Quotes |
| When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. Laurence Olivier Quotes |
| A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver W. Holmes, Sr. Quotes |
Old Time, who changes all below,
To wean men gently for the grave.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Quotes |
| What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. John Fischer Quotes |
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| Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. Attributed to John Wagner Quotes |
| Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein) Quotes |
| At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. Marya Mannes Quotes |
| Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler Quotes |
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| Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. Author Unknown Quotes |
| We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. Charles Lamb Quotes |
It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Autumn Quotes |
| You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down. T.S. Eliot Quotes |
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| Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes |
| When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. Marty Bucella Quotes |
| Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Saint Aurelius Augustine Quotes |
| Age swallows our childhood. Jareb Teague Quotes |
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| First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. Leo Rosenberg Quotes |
| The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| 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. Henri Amiel Quotes |
| We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. Frank A. Clark Quotes |
| Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. Quoted by Francis Bacon Quotes |
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| None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
| I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990. Dave Barry Quotes |
| Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale Quotes |
| You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. Author Unknown Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. G. Norman Collie Quotes |
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An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March Quotes |
| There is still no cure for the common birthday. John Glenn Quotes |
| Does age poison us, or do we poison age? Astrid Alauda Quotes |
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| Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. Martin Buxbaum Quotes |
| 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. Doris Lessing Quotes |
| To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
Edmund Waller Quotes |
| I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes |
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Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes |
| I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. Voltaire Quotes |
| There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. From the movie Quotes |
| Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Asquith Quotes |
| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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| Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. Brigitte Bardot Quotes |
| Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning Quotes |
| We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. Author Unknown Quotes |
| The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. Judith Regan Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
| Age is a high price to pay for maturity. Tom Stoppard Quotes |
| By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. Author Unknown Quotes |
| There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes |
| There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. J.B. Priestly Quotes |
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| I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Everyone is the age of their heart. Guatemalan Proverb Quotes |
| There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt. Author Unknown Quotes |
| Youth is a disease from which we all recover. Dorothy Fulheim Quotes |
| Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo Quotes |
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| Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net. Franklin Adams Quotes |
| Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. Bob Hope Quotes |
| Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. Caryn Leschen Quotes |
| When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. Mark Twain Quotes |
| The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. Jerry M. Wright Quotes |
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| Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. Robert Southey Quotes |
| A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore Quotes |
| How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? Satchel Paige Quotes |
| Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Author Unknown Quotes |
| A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes |
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| Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier Quotes |
| Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. Charles Dickens Quotes |
| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. John Mortimer Quotes |
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| The years teach much which the days never knew. Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
| Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. Sam Ewing Quotes |
| In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. E.B. White Quotes |
| Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Chili Davis Quotes |
| In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. Nikita Ivanovich Panin Quotes |
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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. Samuel Ullman Quotes |
| You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. Victor Hugo Quotes |
| Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody. Willa Cather Quotes |
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| How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender. William James Quotes |
| Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. Whitney Young Quotes |
| The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather Quotes |
| I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred. Thomas Alva Edison Quotes |
| Though an old man I am but a young gardener. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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| Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past. Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. Trotsky Quotes |
| In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces. Author Unknown Quotes |
| One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. Virginia Woolf Quotes |
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| Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. Sir Arthur Pinero Quotes |
| How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. Robert McAfee Brown Quotes |
| 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. Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
| You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost Quotes |
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| Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
| The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Quotes |
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| The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done." Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr. Quotes |
| Old age is fifteen years older than I am. (also attributed to Bernard Baruch in slightly different form) Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| Live your life and forget your age. Norman Vincent Peale Quotes |
| When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. Mark Twain - attributed in error Quotes |
| The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau Quotes |
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| There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare. Horace Rumpole Quotes |
| Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age. Jeanne Moreau Quotes |
| First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful. Lady Diana Cooper Quotes |
| In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. Lionel Trilling Quotes |
| The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. Helen Hayes Quotes |
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| It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length. Helen Keller Quotes |
| No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes |
| The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes |
| So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women? Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes |
| Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age. Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes |
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| Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke Quotes |
| Among all my patients in the second half of life ... there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Jung Quotes |
| As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death. Cicero Quotes |
| The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow Quotes |
| A woman has the age she deserves. Coco Chanel Quotes |
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| There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom. Cornelius Otis Skinner Quotes |
| Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. Dr. Johnson Quotes |
| There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. Edith Wharton Quotes |
| Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- a really delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling. Edna Ferber Quotes |
| I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. Elizabeth Arden Quotes |
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| Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. Eric Hoffer Quotes |
| All would live long, but none would be old. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. Letter to Otto Juliusburger Albert Einstein Quotes |
| It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all. Alfred Adler Quotes |
| It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! Alice James Quotes |
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| We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin Quotes |
| I want to die young at a ripe old age. Ashley Montagu Quotes |
| And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
| About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. Gloria Pitzer Quotes |
| 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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| Half of maturity consists of knowing when and how to be immature. Chris Bowyer Quotes |
| Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Aristotle Quotes |
| Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow. Mark Twain Quotes |
| Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Emily Dickinson Quotes |
| When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately. Pablo Picasso Quotes |
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| I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. Lauren Bacall Quotes |
| One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child. Wayne Dyer Quotes |
| I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin Quotes |
| Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages. Mark Twain Quotes |
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| Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. Bill Cosby Quotes |
| When you become senile, you won't know it. Bill Cosby Quotes |
| Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. Theodore Roosevelt Quotes |
| The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
| Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. Alexander Hamilton Quotes |
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| Every man over forty is a scoundrel. George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
| The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. Doug Larson Quotes |
| Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
| Age does not always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone. Garrison Keillor Quotes |
| Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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| At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. George Orwell Quotes |
| I don't know how old I am because the goat ate The Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven. Satchel Paige Quotes |
| Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom. Nachman of Bratslav Quotes |
| The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people. Nachman of Bratslav Quotes |
| Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes |
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| You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
| Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. C.S. Lewis Quotes |
| Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. Adlai Stevenson Quotes |
| If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred. George Burns Quotes |
| The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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| My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. Henny Youngman Quotes |
| It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. Kareem Abdul-Jabar Quotes |
| It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. Geoffrey F. Abert Quotes |
| To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. Russell L(incoln) Ackoff Quotes |
| There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams Quotes |
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| A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless) Douglas Noel Adams Quotes |
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