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    The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

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Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Age Quotes,
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Age Quotes,
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

by C.s. Lewis 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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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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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too
little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business read more

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.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.

Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.

by Diana Cooper Found in: Age Quotes,
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We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.

by Stu Mittleman Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.

Old age come on apace to ravage all the clime.

by James Beattie Found in: Age Quotes,
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