Age And Aging

(169 votes)   We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(161 votes)   Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(157 votes)   The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.

Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(156 votes)   Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(149 votes)   There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

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

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(145 votes)   While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(131 votes)   Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

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

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(126 votes)   Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Germaine Greer
1939-, Australian Feminist Writer

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(125 votes)   In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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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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(124 votes)   Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato
BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

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(122 votes)   The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(119 votes)   By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns
1896-1996, American Comedy Actor

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(116 votes)   The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(114 votes)   I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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