age
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘age’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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I’m 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I’d also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people – I don’t want to judge it or anything – but it’s not for me. It would destroy my creativity. – Henry Rollins
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I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. – Mick Jagger
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It is not well to make great changes in old age. – Charles Spurgeon
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. – Andre Maurois
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now. – Lord Byron
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I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13. – Richard Dawkins
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. – Michel de Montaigne
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Love has no age, no limit and no death. – John Galsworthy
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I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday. – Noel Coward
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My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail. – Sara Blakely
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. – Johnny Ball
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. – Bono
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I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. – Carl Sandburg
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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another. – Reinhold Niebuhr
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward. – Frank Lloyd Wright
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Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. – Phyllis Diller
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin
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Swing voters are more appropriately known as the ‘idiot voters’ because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster. – Ann Coulter
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. – Arthur Schopenhauer
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. – Bo Bennett
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. – William Butler Yeats
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Jack Benny
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‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. – Martha Graham
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I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun. – George W. Bush
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. – Henry Miller
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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. – Francis Bacon
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Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. – Benjamin Disraeli
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too. – Liv Tyler
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Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. – Michelangelo
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The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. – Orson Welles
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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. – Charles Kingsley
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. – William Blake
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Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn’t…
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. – Charles Dickens
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Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. – Peace Pilgrim
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The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. – Princess Diana
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. – Edmund Burke
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. – Ambrose Bierce
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias. – Abdul Kalam
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx
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In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show. – Timothy Leary
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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. – Olivia Munn
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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won’t get run over. – Miriam Makeba
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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 D. Eisenhower
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Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. – Tom Wilson
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. – Robert Green Ingersoll
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And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each…
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. – Miguel de Unamuno
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – George Orwell
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People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me. – Helen Hayes
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle
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Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. – Bertrand Russell
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. – Alexander Hamilton
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Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. – Soren Kierkegaard
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In youth we learn in age we understand. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I have the problems of, I must confess, old age. – Billy Graham
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Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age. – Colin Powell
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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. – Lord Chesterfield
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For 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
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Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter. – Satchel Paige
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Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. – Louisa May Alcott
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H. L. Mencken
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. – Salvador Dali
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Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – Pope John XXIII
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I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That’s what I do. I’m like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. – Avril Lavigne
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James
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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. – Jean-Paul Sartre
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I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get. – Elizabeth Taylor
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He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. – Voltaire
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A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. – Mignon McLaughlin
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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. – Margaret Mead
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Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. – Erma Bombeck
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I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. – Clint Eastwood
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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. – Douglas MacArthur
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I don’t need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me. – Stephen Fry
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. – Robert Louis Stevenson
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Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life. – Aphra Behn
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Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age. – Katharine Hepburn
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I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. – Judy Garland
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. – Lucille Ball
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Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you. – Marilyn Monroe
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. – Oprah Winfrey
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The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids. – Eminem
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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
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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm
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I’ve got volumes on how not to behave. I’ve got more information now than a guy should have at my age. – Charlie Sheen
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I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. – Rodney Dangerfield
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Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese. – Luis Bunuel
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Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. – Ernest Hemingway
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I must confess, I was born at a very early age. – Groucho Marx
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We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. – Tony Robbins
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To me – old age is always ten years older than I am. – John Burroughs
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Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein
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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
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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ‘At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.’ – Claude Pepper
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Old age is just a record of one’s whole life. – Muhammad Ali
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Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent. – Mahatma Gandhi
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The golden age is before us, not behind us. – William Shakespeare
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In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. – Thomas Jefferson
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller
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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. – Ronald Reagan
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. – Benjamin Franklin
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Anais Nin
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We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. – John F. Kennedy
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it. – Doris Day
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled. – Gene Fowler
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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. – Sinclair Lewis
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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
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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun
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There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. – Fay Weldon
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Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age, but they die young. – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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I get all fired up about aging in America. – Willard Scott
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There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within. – Susan Anton
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The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. – Colleen McCullough
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark
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The whole business of marshaling one’s energies becomes more and more important as one grows older. – Hume Cronyn
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. – Bob Wells
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair. – Ira Gershwin
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As men get older, the toys get more expensive. – Marvin Davis
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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
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. – Amos Bronson Alcott
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. – Alan Bleasdale
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – James Thurber
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No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. – Katharine Graham
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If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains! – Kevin Spacey
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Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! – Pierre Corneille
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I don’t want to fight aging I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I’m not interested. – Christine Lahti
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. – Harold Coffin
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No man is ever old enough to know better. – Holbrook Jackson
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. – Logan P. Smith
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. – Beverly Sills
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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
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We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. – Frank A. Clark
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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. – Max Lerner
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. – Bob Hope
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After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. – Helen Gurley Brown
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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. – Judith Viorst
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I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel. – Henri Frederic Amiel
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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
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. – Warren Beatty
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As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage. – Frances Conroy
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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. – Golda Meir
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day’s long. – Pope Paul VI
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. – Doug Larson
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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. – Kitty O’Neill Collins
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. – Josh Billings
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If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment. – B. F. Skinner
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. – Louis Kronenberger
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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. – Sting
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. – Victor Hugo
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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
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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams
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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. – Hosea Ballou
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. – Stanislaw Lec
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