Age

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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

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— Barbara de Angelis

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The excitement of learning seperates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.

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— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Life is a stairway – some are going up, others are going down.

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— Bulgarian Proverb

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

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— T. S. Eliot

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape.

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— Morrow Bourne

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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— George Bernard Shaw

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

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— Thomas Jefferson

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.

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— Chinese Proverb

I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD… I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it.

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— Jim Morrison

Age is an issue over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

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— Mark Twain

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not equal to our present?

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— Confucius

Never too old to learn.

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— Latin proverb

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

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— Mark Twain

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young or slender.

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— William James

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed…

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— T. E. Lawrence

Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom - 1922

A man growing old becomes a child again.

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— Sophocles

Source: Quoted in Dramas of Sophocles - 2007

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

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— Henry David Thoreau

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.

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— Unknown Author

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

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— Theodore Roosevelt

All diseases run into one, old age.

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— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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— W. Somerset Maugham

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

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— Marcel Proust

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

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— Proverb

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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— George Bernard Shaw

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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— Henry David Thoreau

It’s not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain.

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— German Proverb

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

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— Catullus

Age steals away all the things, even the mind.

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— Virgil

The old feel the blows that were aquired when younger.

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— Welsh Proverb