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Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
Category: Age Author: G Norman Collie
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You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
Category: Age Author: Author Unknown
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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.
Category: Age Author: T S Eliot
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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Category: Age Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
Category: Age Author: Sara Teasdale
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Category: Age Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Category: Age Author: Francis Bacon
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Category: Age Author: Frank A Clark
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First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
Category: Age Author: Leo Rosenberg
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Category: Age Author: Oscar Wilde
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When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
Category: Age Author: Marty Bucella
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Category: Age Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Category: Age Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
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You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
Category: Age Author: Author Unknown
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
Category: Age Author: Charles Lamb
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Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, in answer to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?"
Category: Age Author: William Habington
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It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
Category: Age Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
Category: Age Author: Author Unknown
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Category: Age Author: Leon Trotsky
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
Category: Age Author: Benjamin Franklin
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