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Margaret Mead
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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.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
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Andre Maurois
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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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Don Marquis
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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C. S. Lewis
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
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Sinclair Lewis
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Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
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Stanislaw Lec
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Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
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Louis Kronenberger
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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.
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Victor Hugo
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
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Bob Hope
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I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
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Bob Hope
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
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Knut Hamsun
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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.
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Ira Gershwin
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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.
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Charles de Gaulle
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Old age is a shipwreck.
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Anatole France
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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.
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Gene Fowler
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
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Harrison Ford
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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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Henry Ford
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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.
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Calista Flockhart
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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!
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Jim Fiebig
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
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Jules Feiffer
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
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Sam Ewing
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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.
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Euripides
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Leon Edel
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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.
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Emily Dickinson
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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Doris Day
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Doris Day
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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Bette Davis
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Old age is no place for sissies.
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Bill Cosby
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
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Bill Cosby
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
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Joan Collins
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
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Harold Coffin
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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Frank A. Clark
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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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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
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Agatha Christie
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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.
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Maurice Chevalier
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
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Cato
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
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Albert Camus
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
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Martin Buxbaum
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
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George Burns
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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Pearl S. Buck
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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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Robert Browning
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Alan Bleasdale
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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.
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Brigitte Bardot
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
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Francis Bacon
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Lauren Bacall
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
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