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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Ambrose Bierce
I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
Thomas Jefferson
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
Jane Fonda
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Sir John Mortimer
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Arnold Palmer
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
Ernest Hemingway
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.
George Eliot
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Monroe Schulz
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Terence
Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.
Plato
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle
I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.
Kristen Stewart