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    Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

by Maurice Chevalier Found in: Age Quotes,
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

by Bill Vaughn Found in: Age Quotes,
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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 read more

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.

by Lillian Smith Found in: Age Quotes,
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

by Alexander Hamilton Found in: Age Quotes,
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

by Satchel Paige Found in: Age Quotes,
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of read more

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

by Muriel Spark Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

by Emily Dickinson 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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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never read more

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

by James A. Garfield Found in: Age Quotes,
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