• We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 23 votes · 177 reads

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• We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 199 reads

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• We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 10 votes · 147 reads

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• We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 176 reads

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• 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

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 181 reads

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• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

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  3.5 · 13 votes · 185 reads

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• 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.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 15 reads

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 23 reads

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 185 reads

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• What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.7 · 62 votes · 62 reads

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• Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 165 reads

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• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 172 reads

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• When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 15 reads

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• 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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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 6 votes · 87 reads

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• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 167 reads

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• Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 11 reads

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• While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 53 reads

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice]

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 186 reads

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• You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 47 votes · 76 reads

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 38 votes · 52 reads

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• Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 196 reads

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• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 39 votes · 89 reads

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• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 52 reads

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