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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON AGE 5
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Samuel Ullman (1840-1924, German-born American educator, writer, poet)
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
Samuel Ullman (1840-1924, German-born American educator, writer, poet)
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.
Samuel Ullman (1840-1924, German-born American educator, writer, poet)
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Samuel Ullman (1840-1924, German-born American educator, writer, poet)
Age considers; youth ventures.
Author Unknown
Age withers only the outside.
Author Unknown
An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.
Author Unknown
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
Author Unknown
If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.
Author Unknown
It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.
Author Unknown
Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.
Author Unknown
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Author Unknown
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Author Unknown
Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.
Author Unknown
Old age though despised, is coveted by all.
Author Unknown
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
Author Unknown
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
The person of wisdom is the person of years.
Author Unknown
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.
Author Unknown
When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.
Author Unknown
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.
Author Unknown
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)
They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
Henry Vaughan (1622-1695, Welsh poet)
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
Judith Viorst (1935-, American poet, journalist)
Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Virgil (c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman poet)
Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age, particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience, what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.
Molly Yard
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939, Irish poet, playwright.)
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
Raquel Welch (1940-, American actress)
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.
Fay Weldon (1933-, British novelist)
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Edith Wharton (1862-1937, American author)
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart.
Elwyn Brooks White (1899-1985, American author, editor)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious nearby freedom of death.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
O time and change -- with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892, American poet, reformer, author)
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919, American poet, journalist)
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Edward Young (1683-1765, British poet, dramatist)
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