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    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 success.

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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

by Bennett Cerf Found in: Age Quotes,
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Age Quotes,
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There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know read more

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

by Mignon Mclaughlin Found in: Age Quotes,
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

by Tom Stoppard Found in: Age Quotes, Maturity Quotes,
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.

by Arthur Schopenhauer Found in: Age Quotes,
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less read more

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre read more

What is it to grow old?
Is it to lose the glory of the form,
The lustre of the eye?
Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath?
Yes; but not this alone.

by Matthew Arnold Found in: Age Quotes,
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you read more

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

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