Age And Aging

(54 votes)   Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(53 votes)   An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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(53 votes)   When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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(53 votes)   Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Samuel Ullman
1840-1924, German-born American Educator, Writer, Poet

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(52 votes)   Age will not be defied.

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

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(52 votes)   Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

William Golding
1911-1993, British Author

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(52 votes)   I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

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

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(52 votes)   You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Les Brown
1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer

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(51 votes)   An old young man, will be a young old man.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(51 votes)   Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don't keep peddling, you'll fall.

Claude D. Pepper

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(50 votes)   Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Lydia M. Child
1802-1880, American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor

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(50 votes)   Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(50 votes)   Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(50 votes)   Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

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

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(50 votes)   With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

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

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