Age And Aging

(44 votes)   As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(44 votes)   Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Rahel

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(44 votes)   Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Sir William Osler
1849-1919, Canadian Physician

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(44 votes)   You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

John Nuveen

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(43 votes)   Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Muriel Spark
1918-, British Novelist

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(43 votes)   If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Margaret Mead
1901-1978, American Anthropologist

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(43 votes)   In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

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(43 votes)   There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(43 votes)   When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

John Mortimer
1923-, British Barrister, Novelist

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(43 votes)   You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Arnold Palmer
1929-, American Golfer

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(41 votes)   I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Peter Gabriel
1950-, British Rock Musician

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(41 votes)   No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk --handsome, twenty-two year old.

Vladimir Mayakovsky
1893-1930, Russian Poet, Dramatist

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(41 votes)   Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(41 votes)   Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!

Julia C. R. Dorr
1825-1913, American Poet, Novelist

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(40 votes)   Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Dorothy L. Sayers
1893-1957, British Author

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