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~ Old age is a shipwreck. ~ Charles de Gaulle
~ If youth knew; if age could. ~ Henri Estienne ~ Age is a bad traveling companion. ~ English Proverb ~ Tranquility is the old man's milk. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ I grow old learning something new everyday. ~ Solon ~ It takes a long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso ~ A man growing old becomes a child again. ~ Sophocles ~ Life is one long process of getting tired.~ Samuel Butler ~ The old forget, the young don't know. ~ German Proverb ~ No man loves life like him that's growing old. ~ Sophocles ~ No wise man ever wished to be younger. ~ Jonathan Swift ~ I am not young enough to know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ All diseases run into one, old age. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~ John Glenn ~ Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard ~ Age is how we determine how valuable you are. ~ Jane Elliot ~ Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ As men get older, the toys get more expensive. ~ Marvin Davis ~ A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. ~ Homer ~Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance. ~ French Proverb ~ No man is ever old enough to know better. ~ Holbrook Jackson ~ Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. ~ Charles Dickens ~ Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. ~ Stanislaw Lec ~ Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~ Anonymous ~ Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ~ Victor Hugo ~ We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~ Emily Dickinson ~ Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. ~ Robert Brault ~ Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. ~ Jonathan Swift ~ I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. ~ Irene Mayer Selznick ~ Age is a slowing down of everything except fear. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~ Mark Twain ~ About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~ Gloria Pitzer ~ Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. ~ Maurice Chevalier ~ Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ~ Emily Dickinson ~ In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ~ Beverly Sills ~ No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living. ~ Marie Beyon Ray ~ None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ~ Kitty O'Neill Collins ~ Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength. ~ Betty Friedan ~ I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. ~ Thomas Jefferson ~ A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~ Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Mark Twain ~ There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith ~ People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. ~ Russell Baker ~ You're never too old. Unfortunately, you're always too young to know it. ~ Robert Brault ~ Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. ~ William Hazlitt ~ I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~ The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ~ Alfred North Whitehead ~ I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can. ~ Rita Mae Brown ~ It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. ~ Robert Brault ~ I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. ~ Francis Bacon ~ Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~ Robert Southey ~ A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.~ Liz Carpenter ~ No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to. ~ Lynn Johnston ~ At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgement. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. ~ Max Lerner ~ The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.~ H. L. Mencken ~ I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me. ~ John Scalzi ~ A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~ As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew Carnegie ~ We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. ~ Frank A. Clark ~ Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. ~ Theodore Roosevelt ~ Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. ~ Teilhard de Chardin ~ Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. ~ Francis Bacon, Sr. ~ I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. ~ Josh Billings ~ The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~ Madeleine L'Engle ~ Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. ~ Lillian Carter ~ The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. ~ William Wordsworth ~ At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. ~ John Andrew Holmes ~ The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~ Jim Fiebig ~ The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. ~ Saki ~ Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. ~ Walter Lippmann ~ Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. ~ G. Norman Collie ~ Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.~ Don Marquis ~ To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~ Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. ~ Ogden Nash ~ To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. ~ Oscar Wilde ~ An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. ~ Agatha Christie ~ I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past. ~ Robert Brault ~ One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young. ~ William Feather ~ Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. ~ Francois de la Rochefoucauld ~ Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up. ~ Tryon Edwards ~ 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 ~ Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. ~ Robert Brault ~ 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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~ The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~ Mark Twain
~ The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. ~ Mark Twain
~ The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
~ There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
~ Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~ John Ciardi
~ 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
~ As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ~ Margaret Mead
~ The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes. ~ Mark Twain
~ The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
~ There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
~ Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. ~ John Ciardi
~ 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
~ As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ~ Margaret Mead