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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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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement. – Dwight L. Moody
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. – Betty Friedan
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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
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. – Emily Dickinson
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I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless. – James Broughton
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. – Euripides
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. – Bill Cosby
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel. – George Bernard Shaw
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. – Albert Camus
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Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. – Bill Vaughan
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. – Theodore Roosevelt
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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
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -Henry Ford
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -Mark Twain
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. -Kurt Vonnegut
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. -C. S. Lewis
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. -Confucius
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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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
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. -Agatha Christie
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All diseases run into one, old age. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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