Age And Aging

(61 votes)   A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Sir Richard Steele
1672-1729, British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor

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(198 votes)   A lady of a ''certain age,'' which means certainly aged.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(35 votes)   A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Joyce Carey

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(26 votes)   A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Mortimer Collins
1827-1876, British Novelist, Poet

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(30 votes)   A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(26 votes)   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.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(67 votes)   Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(33 votes)   Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Carlos Pena Romulo

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(38 votes)   Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Billie Burke

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(78 votes)   Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(56 votes)   Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

Ralph B. Perry

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(52 votes)   Age will not be defied.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(28 votes)   Age withers only the outside.

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(48 votes)   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 D. Pepper

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(124 votes)   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
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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