 |
 | "A comfortable old age is the reward of a weII-spent youth. Instead
of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us
hopes of eternal youth in a better world." | |
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R. Palmer
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| "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman"s birthday but
never remembers her age." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "A good old age becomes mellow and ripe. There is less of
irritability, more of contentment. Children are a joy to a good old age.
God is nearer." | |
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Reverend Sidney Strong
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| "A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of
immorality." | |
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Pindar
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| "A man is as old as he?s feeling, A woman as old as she looks." | |
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Mortimer Collins
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| "A man is as old as his arteries." | |
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Thomas Sydenham
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| "A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." | |
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Jean Rostand
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| "A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his
longevity. "I reckon," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "It"s because
most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and
worried."" | |
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Dorothea Kent
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| "After a certain number of years, our faces become our
biographies." | |
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Cynthia Ozick
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| "After thirty, a body has a mind of its own." | |
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Bette Midler
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| "Age carries all things away, even the mind." | |
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Publius Vergilius Maro Virgil
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| "Age considers; youth ventures." | |
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Rabindranath Tagore
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| "Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true
children still." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Age is a very high price to pay for maturity." | |
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Tom Stoppard
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| "Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old.
All you have to do is live long enough." | |
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Don Marquis
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| "Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can"t retire
his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy
and time." | |
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Bernard Mannes Baruch
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| "Age, like distance lends a double charm." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his
face." | |
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Albert Camus
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| "All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning
the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth." | |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| "All would live long, but none would be old." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones
who will be writing about you." | |
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Cyril Connolly
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| "And in the end, it"s not the years in your life that count. It"s the
life in your years." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes
constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity." | |
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Harvey Ullman
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| "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone
who keeps learning today is young. The greatest thing in life is to keep
your mind young." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I
honestly do not know how old I am." | |
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Erma Bombeck
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| "As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I
care less and less Who goes to bed with whom." | |
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Dorothy Sayers
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| "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch
what they do." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "As old as the hills" | |
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Sir Walter Scott
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| "As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people
don"t." | |
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Carrie Fisher
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| "As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling
itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you." | |
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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| "At age seventy: If I had any decency, I"d be dead. Most of my
friends are." | |
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Dorothy Parker
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| "At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and
plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the
world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know
he can"t." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed." | |
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Edward Young
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| "Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends
are going or gone and we survive amoungst the dead and dying on a
battlefield." | |
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Muriel Spark
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| "Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men." | |
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Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
|
|
| "But at my back I always hear Times winged Chariot hurrying
near." | |
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Andrew Marvell
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| "But I was so much older then, I"m younger than that now." | |
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Bob Dylan
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| "Describing Julia Mavimbela of So. Africa, Her hair is graying, her
face etched with fine lines from her smile and from years of working
outdoors. Her hands are creased with knowledge of the soil and the handles
of tools...." | |
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Giles H. Florence
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| "Details are all there are." | |
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Maezumi Roshi
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| "Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways
you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the
people you can, As long as ever you can." | |
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John Wesley
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| "Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old." | |
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Jonathan Swift
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| "Every man over forty is a scoundrel." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Every time I think that I"m getting old, and gradually going to the
grave, something else happens." | |
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Lillian Carter
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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." | |
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George Eliot
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| "First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to
pull your zipper up, and then you forget to pull your zipper down." | |
|
Leo Rosenberg
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| "From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she
needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55
on she needs cash." | |
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Sophie Tucker
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| "From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a
satyr." | |
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Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
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| "Gray hair is God"s graffiti." | |
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William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
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| "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for
which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith, ?A whole I
planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: See all, nor be afraid!?" | |
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Robert Browning
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| "Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no
time to form." | |
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Andre Maurois
|
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| "Growing old"s like being increasingly penalized for a crime you
haven"t committed." | |
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Anthony Dymoke Powell
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| "He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it"s
bottled." | |
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Gene Fowler
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| "He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at
forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or
wise." | |
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George Herbert
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| "He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember
when he is old, that he has once been young." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are
their last days." | |
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John Burroughs
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|
| "How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age
is replete." | |
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Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis
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| "How old would you be if you didn"t know how old you are?" | |
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Satchel Paige
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| "How old would you be if you didn"t know how old you was?" | |
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Leroy Satchell Paige
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| "I am not young enough to know everything. [see J. M. Barrie]" | |
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Oscar Wilde
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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." | |
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Liv Tyler
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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." | |
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T. S. Eliot
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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." | |
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William Ernest Hocking
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| "I grow old ever learning many things." | |
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Solon
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|
| "I have everything I had twenty years ago ? except now it?s all
lower." | |
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Gypsy Rose Lee
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|
| "I have found it to be true that the older I"ve become, the better my
life has become." | |
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Rush H. Limbaugh III
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| "I hope I never get so old I get religious." | |
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Ingmar Bergman
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| "I love everything that"s old: old friends, old times, old manners,
old books, old wine." | |
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Oliver Goldsmith
|
|
| "I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able
to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I
don"t want to do them." | |
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Lady Nancy Astor
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|
| "I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I"m not old
yet!" | |
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Leo Rosten
|
|
| "I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to
have things I am not able to appreciate." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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|
| "I"m like old wine. They don"t bring me out very often, but I"m well
preserved." | |
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
|
|
| "I"ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth
is arrested development." | |
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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth
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|
| "I"ve never known a person to live to be one hundred and be
remarkable for anything else." | |
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Josh Billings
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|
| "If you didn"t know how old you were, how old would you be?" | |
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James Hubert "Eubie" Blake
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the
years are short and day"s long." | |
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Pope Paul VI
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| "In youth we learn; in age we understand." | |
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Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
|
|
| "In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into
us." | |
|
Beverly Sills
|
|
| "It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen." | |
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Brigitte Bardot
|
|
| "It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel
that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own
esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable." | |
|
Anatole France
|
|
| "It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood." | |
|
William Shakespeare
|
|
| "Laugh at yourself, but don"t ever aim your doubt at yourself." | |
|
Alan Alda
|
|
| "Life after Fifty Everything hurts and what doesn"t hurt doesn"t
work. The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals. You
feel like the night before and you haven"t been anywhere. You get winded
playing chess. Your children begin to look middle aged. You begin to
outlive enthusiasm. Your mind makes contracts your body can"t meet. You
know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. You look forward
to a dull evening. Your favorite part of the newspaper is 25 Years Ago
Today. You sit in a rocking chair and can"t get it going. Your knees
buckle and your belt won"t. You reget all those mistakes resisting
temptation. Dialing long distance wears you out. Your back goes out more
than you do. A fortune teller offers to read your face. You burn the
midnight oil after 9:00 pm. You sink your teeth into a steak and they stay
there. You get your exercise acting as a pallbearer for your friends who
exercise. You have too much room in the house & not enough room in the
medicine cabinet. The best part of my day is over when the alarm goes
off." | |
|
Rex Guinn
|
|
| "Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable." | |
|
Unknown
|
|
| "Men are like wine ? some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with
age." | |
|
Pope John XXIII
|
|
| "Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up
with Mother Nature." | |
|
Harold Coffin
|
|
| "Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay." | |
|
Doris Day
|
|
| "Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death
does." | |
|
Gerald Brenan
|
|
| "Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there
are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of
aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal
of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing
techniques, and through meditation." | |
|
Lydia M. Child
|
|
| "My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious
belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our
Cabernet stage." | |
|
Peggy Noonan
|
|
| "My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of
dread to me." | |
|
Thomas Jefferson
|
|
| "Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to
merit the face you have at fifty." | |
|
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
|
|
| "No man is ever old enough to know better." | |
|
Holbrook Jackson
|
|
| "No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year." | |
|
Marcus Tullius Cicero
|
|
| "No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young
that he cannot die today." | |
|
Fernando de Rojas
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship
with the stars." | |
|
George Meredith
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "Old age is a shipwreck." | |
|
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
|
|
| "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard
there is nothing you can do about it." | |
|
Golda Meir
|
|
| "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you"ve got
to start young." | |
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
|
| "Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you"re aboard, there"s
nothing you can do." | |
|
Margaret Mead
|
|
| "Old age is no place for sissies." | |
|
Bette Davis
|
|
| "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to
a man." | |
|
James Thurber
|
|
| "Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves." | |
|
Phyllis Diller
|
|
| "Old age isn"t so bad when you consider the alternatives." | |
|
Cato the Elder
|
|
| "Old age itself is a disease. ?Senectus ipsast morbus" | |
|
Publius Terence (P. Terentius Afer)
|
|
| "Old age needs so little but needs that little so much." | |
|
Margaret Willour
|
|
| "Old age was simply a delightful time, when the old people sat on the
sunny doorsteps, playing in the sun with the children, until they fell
asleep. At last they failed to wake up." | |
|
James Paytiamo
|
|
| "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." | |
|
Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
|
|
| "Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and
old authors to read." | |
|
Francis Bacon
|
|
| "OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with
general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and
offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book." | |
|
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
|
|
| "People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the
fact that it is within everyone"s reach to live nobly, but within no one"s
reach to live long." | |
|
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
|
|
| "Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem?in my opinion?to
characterize our age." | |
|
Albert Einstein
|
|
| "Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations." | |
|
Bernard of Clairvaux
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "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 ..." | |
|
Thomas Arnold
|
|
| "Senescence begins And middle age ends, The day your descendents,
Outnumber your friends." | |
|
Ogden Nash
|
|
| "So people think I"m lying about my age all the time? It"s the
records that are wrong. I"ve never told anyone how old I am. The minute
they ask me, I say "That"s none of your business." So that means I"ve
never once lied about my age. Now that"s true!" | |
|
Calista Flockhart
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on
fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting
thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older." | |
|
William Lyon Phelps
|
|
| "The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts
life." | |
|
William James
|
|
| "The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they
are payable with interest thirty years later." | |
|
Monty Python
|
|
| "The four stages of a man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and
obsolescence." | |
|
Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter
|
|
| "The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between
a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience." | |
|
Maurice Chevalier
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate
twenty-five-year-old men more." | |
|
Collen McCullough
|
|
| "The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the
clearer we should see through it." | |
|
Jean Paul Richter
|
|
| "The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the
clearer we should see through it." | |
|
Jean-Paul Sartre
|
|
| "The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which
makes you unique." | |
|
Walter Elias Disney
|
|
| "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the
young know everything." | |
|
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
|
|
| "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age
brings wisdom." | |
|
Henry Louis Mencken
|
|
| "The quality, not the longevity, of one"s life is what is
important." | |
|
Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
|
| "The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal.
There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is
time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one?s self: "the work
is done." But just as one says that, the answer comes: "The race is over,
but the work never is done while the power to work remains." The canter
that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot
be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is
in living." | |
|
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
|
|
| "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie
about your age." | |
|
Lucille Ball
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "The trick is growing up without growing old." | |
|
Casey Stengel
|
|
| "The trouble with our age is all signpost and no destination." | |
|
Louis Kronenberger
|
|
| "The whole business of marshaling one"s energies becomes more and
more important as one grows older." | |
|
Hume Cronyn
|
|
| "The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always
being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them
down." | |
|
Thomas Stearns Eliot
|
|
| "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will
not laugh is a fool." | |
|
George Santayana
|
|
| "The Youth gets together the materials to build a bridge to the moon,
or perchance a palace or temple on earth, but alas, at length, the middle
aged man concludes to build a wood shed with the materials." | |
|
Henry David Thoreau
|
|
| "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood?Babe, District
Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." | |
|
Goldie Hawn
|
|
| "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want;
and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the
second." | |
|
Logan Pearsall Smith
|
|
| "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." | |
|
John B. Priestly
|
|
| "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but
they die young" | |
|
Arthur Wing Pinero
|
|
| "Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but
they die young." | |
|
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
|
|
| "Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced
old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force." | |
|
Dorothy L. Sayers
|
|
| "To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age Along with
us." | |
|
William Hazlitt
|
|
| "To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a
snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles
and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you
may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and
wonder which it will be." | |
|
Lillian Smith
|
|
| "To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the
age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of
Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison
from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the
treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher
Columbus from discovering America." | |
|
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
|
|
| "To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes ? we are aware that
what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning
of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in
the world." | |
|
Eric Hoffer
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the
most difficult chapters in the great art of living." | |
|
Henri Frédéric Amiel
|
|
| "To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of
advanced years, And in old age the vigor of youth." | |
|
Leszczynski Stanislaus
|
|
| "To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the
mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise,
study and love." | |
|
Karl von Bonstetten
|
|
| "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
|
|
| "Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two,
and paradise is when you have none." | |
|
Doug Larson
|
|
| "Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better
senator ne"er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The
fierce Epirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold
The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled, Then to advise how war may,
best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her
equipage; besides to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means,
What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done: The bounds of
either sword to thee we owe: Therefore on thy firm hand Religion leans In
peace, and reckons thee her eldest son." | |
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John Milton
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| "We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by
the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "We come fresh to the different stages of life, and in each of them
we are quite inexperienced, no matter how old we are." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had
been." | |
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Sophocles
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| "We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like
ourselves." | |
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Dr. Robert Anthony
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| "We pay when old for the excesses of youth." | |
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J. B. Priestley
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| "We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of
this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the
lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave." | |
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Pearl S. Buck
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| "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "We"ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into
helping them enjoy it." | |
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Frank A. Clark
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| "What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is, for the most
part, incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the
knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions ?
a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories,
failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love ? the human experiences and
emotions of this earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps, too, a
little faith, a little reverence for things one cannot see." | |
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson
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| "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply
a loss of energy." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old
age." | |
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Sinclair Lewis
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| "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an
unspeakable dawn in happy old age." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch"s statement that the elder
Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old
age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take
too long." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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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." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "When you"re green, your growing. When you"re ripe, you rot." | |
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Ray Kroc
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| "While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel
old, no matter what his years may be." | |
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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| "Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it
groweth old, and life"s latest sands are its sands of gold!" | |
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Julia Ripley Dorr
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| "Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redford"s lines of distinction
are my old-age wrinkles." | |
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Jane Fonda
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| "Wrinkled as a prune." | |
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Proverb
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| "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make
you want to live to be a hundred." | |
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Woody Allen
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| "You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get
older." | |
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Anouk Aimee
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| "You don"t grow old and stop dancing, you stop dancing and grow
old." | |
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Jessie M. Newburn
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| "You don"t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because
you stop laughing." | |
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Michael Pritchard
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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." | |
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Judith Viorst
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| "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh ? at
yourself." | |
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Ethel Barrymore
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| "You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the
cake." | |
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Bob Hope
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| "You know you"re getting old when all the names in your black book
have M. D. after them." | |
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Harrison Ford
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| "YOUNG MEN THINK OLD MEN ARE FOOLS ? old men know young men to be
so." | |
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George Chapman
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| "Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." | |
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Stanislaw J. Lec
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| "[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked
like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity." | |
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Mark Twain
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