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Date Posted: 16:58:47 09/02/04 Thu
Author: quotes
Subject: age

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
- Jean Rostand
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[Age] is a matter of feeling, not of years.
- George William Curtis
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Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
- Ambrose Bierce
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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
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
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Only the young die good.
- Cynic's Calendar
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
- Chinese Proverb
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
- Tryon Edwards
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- James A. Garfield
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
- François de la Rochefoucauld
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I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
- Nancy Astor
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- André Maurois
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It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
- George Burns
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You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
- Hy Gardner
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
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Middle Age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope
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Children are a great comfort in your old age -- and they help you reach it faster, too.
- Lionel Kauffman
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
- Don Marquis
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Oscar Wilde
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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- Aristotle
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Gray hair is God's graffiti.
- Bill Cosby
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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run
- David Garrick
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The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
- Thomas Hardy
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Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
- George Santayana
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The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
- Diane de Poitiers
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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
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
- Miguel de Cervantes
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Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.
- Alexander Pope
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The old horse in the stable still wants to run.
- Chinese Proverb
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
- Marquis de Sade
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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
- Tom Stoppard
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No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
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To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch
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