Age And Aging

(28 votes)   There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Goldie Hawn
1945-, American Actress

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(28 votes)   You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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

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(27 votes)   At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.

Gerard Depardieu
1948-, French Screen Actor

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(27 votes)   Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

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

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(27 votes)   I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Camille Desmoulins
1760-1794, French Journalist, Revolutionary Leader

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(27 votes)   I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Harry Hershfield

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(27 votes)   Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Trevor Mcdonald

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(27 votes)   Those who search beyond the natural limits will retain good hearing and clear vision, their bodies will remain light and strong, and although they grow old in years they will remain able-bodied and flourishing; and those who are able-bodied can govern to

Huang Ti
BC 2700?-2600?, Chinese ''Yellow Emperor''

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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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(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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(26 votes)   An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(26 votes)   Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, ''just in case,'' in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Alexander Herzen
1812-1870, Russian Journalist, Political Thinker

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(26 votes)   The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(25 votes)   I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Bob Hope
1903-, American Comedian, Actor

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(25 votes)   I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf shit. It scares me.

Eddie Murphy
1961-, American Actor, Comedian, Producer

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