Age Quotes

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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Mark Twain

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

William James

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Aristotle

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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. 

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Oscar Wilde

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be.

Sean O'Casey

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