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Quote 3166
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 3164
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 3100
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 3074
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spendingby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 3037
It is not well to make great changes in old ageShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 3014
In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youthby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2996
To me - old age is always ten years older than I amby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2964
Youth comes but once in a lifetimeShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2821
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2818
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2757
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2569
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily painsShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2535
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.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 2405
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationshipby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2383
We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from deathShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2365
They that have lived a single day have lived an ageShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2276
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the sameby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2250
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shockedby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2244
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless membersShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2229
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 2208
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier yearsby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2183
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old womenShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2125
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2117
To create a little flower is the labour of agesby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2097
The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 2035
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreamsby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1991
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may beShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1942
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain forby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1936
If you observe, people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them.by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1906
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years oldShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1822
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wifeShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1821
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit itby: Jules RenardShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1819
Age is opportunity no less than youth itselfShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1818
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeedby: Edward YoungShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1794
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idolby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1777
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole ageby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1766
Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in bothby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1750
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been youngby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1721
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senileShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1688
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working orderShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1564
Every man over forty is a scoundrelShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1556
A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their campShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1555
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was madeby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1554
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowanceShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1552
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its ageShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1545
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.by: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1541
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playingShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1501
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 1470
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eatingby: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1469
Everything I know I learned after I was thirtyShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1353
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of successby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1350
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow oldShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1349
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are droppedShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1348
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to meby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1347
Some people reach the age of sixty before othersby: Sir Samuel HoodShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1251
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few surviveShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1107
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thoughtShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1105
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old ageby: AristotleShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1104
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasmShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1102
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soulby: Samuel UllmannShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1101
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feelShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1100
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start youngShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1098
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may beShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1097
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old ageShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1096
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old ageShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1095
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind youngby: Henry FordShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1094
All diseases run into one, old ageShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1093
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enoughShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1092
Age considers; youth venturesShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1091
A man growing old becomes a child againby: SophoclesShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1087
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptionsShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 1086
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotationsShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 999
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreamsby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 859
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles comeShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 858
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with itShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 857
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as everShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 856
A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer timeShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 836
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 835
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 833
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 832
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man longShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 778
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.by: HesiodShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 768
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age foreverShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 731
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an ageby: John DrydenShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 699
There's life in the old dog yet.from EnglandShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 639
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of deathby: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 638
We pay when old for the excesses of youthfrom GermanyShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 637
Few people know how to be oldShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 636
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of viceby: Cato the YoungerShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 635
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 634
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's roadby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 633
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakesby: EuripidesShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 632
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.by: PlatonShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 620
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stickShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 619
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.Showing Quotes on age
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Quote 618
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is repleteby: JuvenalShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 617
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to countShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 616
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem, and in my esteem age is not estimableShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 615
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of courseShowing Quotes on age
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Quote 611
The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.by: Cato the YoungerShowing Quotes on age
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