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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says,
Bill Cosby
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl Buck
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
Ingmar Bergman
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
Claude Pepper, Statement in U.S.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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
At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
Ludwig von Mises
You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
George Burns
People between 20 and 40 are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do-after 40. Between 20 and 40 the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not yet begun to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between 20 and 40.
William Faulkner, interview in W
Age affects how people experience time. The observations on this are well known, so it is only necessary to outline briefly what has been the experience of everyone I have ever talked to or read about: the years go faster as one gets older. At the age of four or six, a year seems interminable; at sixty, the years begin to blend and are frequently hard to separate from each other because they move so fast! There are, of course, a number of common-sense explanations for this sort of thing. If you have only lived five years, a year represents 20 percent of your life; if you have lived fifty years, that same year represents only 2 percent of your life, and since lives are lived as wholes, this logarithmic element would make it difficult to maintain the same perspective on the experience of a year
Edward T. Hall
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
Charles Dickens
Age is opportunity no less,than youth itself, though in another dress.And as the evening twilight fades away,The sky is filled by the stars invisible by the day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mori
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
General Douglas MacArthur
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age.
Steven Wright
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
Alanis Morissette
