(139 votes)   The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen
1889-1949, American Author

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(134 votes)   We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(133 votes)   The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(130 votes)   We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(129 votes)   Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
1782-1871, French Composer

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(128 votes)   I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Elizabeth Arden
1876-1966, Canadian-born American Beautician and Businesswoman

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(119 votes)   Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Fred Astaire
1899-1987, American Dancer, Singer, Actor

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(119 votes)   The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(114 votes)   To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas B. Aldrich
1836-1907, American Writer, Editor

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(110 votes)   Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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

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(108 votes)   If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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(108 votes)   Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(105 votes)   Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(104 votes)   But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Judith Viorst
1935-, American Poet, Journalist

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(103 votes)   Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Thomas Arnold
1795-1842, British Educator, Scholar

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