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Aging and Old Age QuotesFamous Aging and Old Age quotes by popular authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Shakespeare, T. S. Eliot, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and others.
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[highlight-text]No gains without pains.
Adlai E. Stevenson
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[highlight-text]Old foxes want no tutors.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle
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[highlight-text]An old man is twice a child.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Old birds are hard to pluck.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Florida: God's waiting room.
Glenn le Grice
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[highlight-text]Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby
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[highlight-text]The arctic loneliness of age.
Silas Weir Mitchell
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[highlight-text]Few people know how to be old.
La Rochefoucauld
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[highlight-text]Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore
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[highlight-text]Time is the subtle thief of youth.
John Milton
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[highlight-text]It is time to be old To take in sail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.
Pietro Aretino
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[highlight-text]Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift
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[highlight-text]Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]I feel age like an icicle down my back.
Dyson Carter
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[highlight-text]An old man loved is Winter with flowers.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
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[highlight-text]Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!
Harold Munro
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[highlight-text]Old age is an island surrounded by death.
Juan Montalvo
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[highlight-text]An old codger rampant and still learning.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]All would live long but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
John Knox
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[highlight-text]It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
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[highlight-text]Let us respect gray hairs especially our own.
J. P. Sears
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[highlight-text]If the young only knew; if the old only could.
French Saying
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[highlight-text]Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
Lord Cecil
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[highlight-text]To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
Maxim Gorky
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[highlight-text]I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.
Harold Lloyd
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[highlight-text]Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.
August Strindberg
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[highlight-text]There is many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Old Saying
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[highlight-text]Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch
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[highlight-text]How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
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[highlight-text]The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[highlight-text]Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
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[highlight-text]A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
William Feather
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[highlight-text]Golden lads and girls all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
Plato
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[highlight-text]Your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions.
Bible
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[highlight-text]What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter
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[highlight-text]The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.
Richard Hughes
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[highlight-text]Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]We grow neither better nor worse as we get old but more like ourselves
May Lamberton Becker
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[highlight-text]Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The young feel tired at the end of an action; The old at the beginning.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]And he (King David) died in a good old age full of days riches and honour.
Bible
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[highlight-text]A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Arnold Bennett
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[highlight-text]Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
Andri Maurois
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[highlight-text]No Doctor I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.
Madame de Rothschild
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[highlight-text]You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.
Larry Miller
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[highlight-text]No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.
John Donne
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[highlight-text]The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
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[highlight-text]I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
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[highlight-text]I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
Gerald Brenan
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[highlight-text]The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
Jacques Bainville
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[highlight-text]Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
Anthony Powell
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[highlight-text]I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]For the unlearned old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
Hasidic Saying
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[highlight-text]One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!
J. B. Priestley
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[highlight-text]How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
John Burroughs
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[highlight-text]Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.
Ogden Nash
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[highlight-text]Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.
James Hubert Blake
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[highlight-text]By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]I have learned little from the years that fly; but I have wrung the colour from the years.
Frances Pollock
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[highlight-text]I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Cesar Romero
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[highlight-text]Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams
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[highlight-text]The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
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[highlight-text]To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]So lively brisk old fellow don't let age get you down. White hairs or not you can still be a lover.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.
George Saville
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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[highlight-text]Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.
Dagobert Runes
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[highlight-text]Middle age is when you have a choice of two temptations and choose the one that will get you home earlier.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Denis Waitley
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[highlight-text]Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Ogden Nash
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[highlight-text]It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.
Sandy Wilson
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[highlight-text]An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
Owen D. Young
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[highlight-text]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 Frederic Amiel
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Cicero
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[highlight-text]They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
Malcolm Cowley
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.
George Burns
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[highlight-text]The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
I. F. Stone
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[highlight-text]He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
William Cowper
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[highlight-text]It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but merely being kept alive against one's will.
Malcolm Cowley
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[highlight-text]One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
Bill Vaughan
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[highlight-text]All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so would I?
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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[highlight-text]Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.
Clarence Randall
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[highlight-text]Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
Finley Peter Dunne
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[highlight-text]One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
Paul W. Litchfield
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[highlight-text]Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
Igor Stravinsky
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[highlight-text]The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
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[highlight-text]Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Jonathan Swift
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[highlight-text]If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth 'a whole I plant Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid.'
Robert Browning
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[highlight-text]When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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[highlight-text]We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
William Hazlitt
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[highlight-text]Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said 'She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama.' When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift
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[highlight-text]He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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[highlight-text]A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]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 people don't have that privilege.'
Earl Warren
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[highlight-text]Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?
W. A. C. Bennett
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[highlight-text]I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women for example I think they deserve to have more than 12 years between the ages of 28 and 40.
James Thurber
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[highlight-text]When I was very young I was disgracefully intolerant but when I passed the thirty mark I prided myself on having learned the beautiful lesson that all things were good and equally good. That however was really laziness. Now thank goodness I've sorted out what matters and what doesn't. And I'm beginning to be intolerant again.
G. B. Stern
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[highlight-text]But Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe and on my jolitee It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age alias! that al wole envenyme Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon ther is namoore to telle; The bren as I best kan now most I selle.
Geoffrey Chaucer