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Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
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The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
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And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older,
I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
- Bill Cosby
When you become senile, you won't know it.
- Bill Cosby
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Habits age men before their time.
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The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Emily Dickinson
Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of
having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
- Jim Fiebig
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.
- T. S. Eliot
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing.
It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage,
but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
- Confucius
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Stanislaw Lec
Age is not a particularly interesting subject.
Anyone can get old.
All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis
He has a profound respect for old age.
Especially when it's bottled.
- Gene Fowler
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
- Doris Day
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue,
but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice;
it whitens only the hair.
- Ira Gershwin
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts
catching up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin
The really frightening thing about middle age is the
knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.
Middle age is when you're forced to.
- Bill Vaughan
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
Old age is like everything else.
To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
- Fay Weldon
I'm not interested in age.
People who tell me their age are silly.
You're as old as you feel.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Age considers; youth ventures.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it,
old age is still old age.
- Sinclair Lewis
Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
Those who love deeply never grow old;
they may die of old age,
but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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.
- Bob Wells
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens.
A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not
suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Dwight L. Moody
Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
- Jane Elliot
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber
You end up as you deserve.
In old age you must put up with the face,
the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
- Judith Viorst
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
- E. Joseph Cossman
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking
that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
- Don Marquis
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more
absurd than to increase our provisions for the road
the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent.
We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
- Knut Hamsun
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
When a noble life has prepared old age,
it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Muriel Spark
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- Albert Camus
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Hosea Ballou
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth,
but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body,
the mind, and the heart.
And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise,
study, and love.
- Alan Bleasdale
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.
Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Golda Meir
Old age is an excellent time for outrage.
My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles de Gaulle
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful,
kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old
age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank Howard Clark
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face.
If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
- Frances Conroy
In youth the days are short and the years are long.
In old age the years are short and day's long.
- Pope Paul VI
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
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