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    To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.

by Maurice Chevalier Found in: Age Quotes,
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were read more

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

by George Eliot Found in: Age Quotes,
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When you become senile, you won't know it.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

by Bill Cosby Found in: Age Quotes,
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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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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person read more

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Age Quotes,
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You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

by Bob Hope Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.

by Golda Meir Found in: Age Quotes,
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Youth is wasted on the young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

by Lactantius Firmianus Found in: Age Quotes,
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