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    Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
    We are belabored by the gout,
    Our blindness is a dark profound,
    Our deafness each one laughs about.
    Then reason's light with falling ray
    Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
    Honor to age, ye children pay!
    Alas! my fifty years are past!

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Age Quotes,
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I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I am.

by Dwight D. Eisenhower Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese

by Billie Burke Found in: Age Quotes,
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after read more

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it
ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

by Bible Found in: Age Quotes,
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Age Quotes,
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To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

by Robert Louis Stevenson Found in: Age Quotes,
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The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from read more

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

by Margaret Willour Found in: Age Quotes,
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