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MysteRy · « **Reply #60 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:08:12 PM »

[highlight-text]I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Edison

MysteRy · « **Reply #61 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:08:46 PM »

[highlight-text]Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Gerald Brenan

MysteRy · « **Reply #62 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:09:19 PM »

[highlight-text]The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

Jacques Bainville

MysteRy · « **Reply #63 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:09:53 PM »

[highlight-text]Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

MysteRy · « **Reply #64 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:10:25 PM »

[highlight-text]Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

Anthony Powell

MysteRy · « **Reply #65 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:10:52 PM »

[highlight-text]I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Robert Frost

MysteRy · « **Reply #66 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:11:39 PM »

[highlight-text]In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

T. S. Eliot

MysteRy · « **Reply #67 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:12:06 PM »

[highlight-text]For the unlearned old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

Hasidic Saying

MysteRy · « **Reply #68 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:12:58 PM »

[highlight-text]One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

J. B. Priestley

MysteRy · « **Reply #69 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:13:43 PM »

[highlight-text]How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

John Burroughs

MysteRy · « **Reply #70 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:14:14 PM »

[highlight-text]Senescence begins And middle age ends The day your descendants Outnumber your friends.

Ogden Nash

MysteRy · « **Reply #71 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:15:09 PM »

[highlight-text]Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

George Santayana

MysteRy · « **Reply #72 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:15:44 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #73 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:16:17 PM »

[highlight-text]By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

MysteRy · « **Reply #74 on:** January 30, 2016, 08:16:48 PM »

[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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