Age And Aging

(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)   Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

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

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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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(30 votes)   Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

Sean O'Casey
1884-1964, Irish Dramatist

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(30 votes)   I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Dean William R. Inge
1860-1954, Dean of St Paul's, London

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(30 votes)   Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

Virginia Woolf
1882-1941, British Novelist, Essayist

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(30 votes)   We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

Stu Mittleman
American Health and Fitness Expert

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(30 votes)   With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. [Job 12:12]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(29 votes)   At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.

Elizabeth Jennings
1926-, British Poet

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(29 votes)   For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(29 votes)   Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Jane Harrison
1850-1928, British Classical Scholar, Writer

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(29 votes)   Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]

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Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(29 votes)   We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Source Unknown

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(28 votes)   Age withers only the outside.

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(28 votes)   Minds ripen at very different ages.

Elizabeth Montagu

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