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When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Connolly, Cyril

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
H., C.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
Vaughan, Bill

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Wolfe, Thomas

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Buxbaum, Martin

Youth is wasted on the young.
Shaw, George Bernard

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Nicklaus, Jack

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
Prentice, George D.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Greene, Henry Graham

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Rochefoucauld, François Duc de La

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Twain, Mark

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
Unknown, Author

Age considers; youth ventures.
Tagore, Rabindranath

You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
Unknown, Author

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Thurber, James Grover

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Willour, Margaret

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Wharton, Edith

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Asquith, Herbert

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
Collins, Mortimer

Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
Unknown, Author

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Adams, Franklin

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
Defoe, Daniel

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
Adams, Franklin

The years teach much which the days never knew.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Wilson, Tom

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
Vaughan, Bill

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Chevalier, Maurice

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
White, E. B.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Mencken, H.L.

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
Smith, Liz

Middle age: When you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
Nash, Ogden

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Shaw, George Bernard

What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
Fischer, John

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Allen

In a dream you are never eighty.
Sexton, Anne

Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
Bierce, Ambrose

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Unknown, Author

There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
Unknown, Author

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Davis, Chili

I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
Diller, Phyllis

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
Wodehouse, P.G.

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Fiebig, Jim

It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.
Scully, Vin

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Amiel, Henri

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Montagu , Ashley

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
Majerus, Rick

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
Kaye-Smith, Sheila

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Rostand, Jean

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
Author, Unknown

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

It takes a long time to become young.
Picasso, Pablo

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
Priestly, J.B.

Everyone is the age of their heart.
Proverb, Guatemalan

There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
McLaughlin, Mignon

There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin

Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.
Wagner, Attributed to John

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Wilde, Oscar

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
Wilde, Oscar

Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
Alauda, Astrid

I dream of hiking into my old age.
Doan, Marlyn

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
Saint-Evremond, Seigneur de

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
Bucella, Marty

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
Wagner, Attributed to John

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Wells, Bob