Age And Aging

(33 votes)   It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Emily Carr
1871-1945, Canadian Artist

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(33 votes)   My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(33 votes)   Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(32 votes)   In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Steve Kangas

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(32 votes)   Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(32 votes)   Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(32 votes)   There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
1804-1869, French Critic

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(32 votes)   We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Proverbs

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(32 votes)   While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. [2 Corinthians 4:18]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(31 votes)   I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(31 votes)   In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

Patricia Neal

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(31 votes)   No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living.

Marie Beyon Ray

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(31 votes)   No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

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

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(31 votes)   One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

J. B. Priestley
1894-1984, English Novelist, Playwright, Essayist

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(31 votes)   Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Arthur E. Morgan
1878-1976, American Engineer, Educator

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