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    As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
    â€” R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON
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    How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?
    â€” S ATCHEL P AIGE
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    Whatever a man’s age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole.
    â€” M ARK T WAIN
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    When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
    â€” M ARTY B UCELLA
    in
Woman
magazine
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    It’s easier to have the vigor of youth when you’re old than the wisdom of age when you’re young.
    â€” R ICHARD J . N EEDHAM
    A Friend in Needham, or, A Writer’s Notebook
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    Adults are obsolete children.
    â€” D R. S EUSS
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    We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
    â€” A NDRÉ B ERTHIAUME
    Contretemps
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    After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
    â€” C YNTHIA O ZICK
    The Paris Review
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    The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.
    â€” M ARGUERITE Y OURCENAR
    Memoirs of Hadrian
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    The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and just not think about your age.
    â€” L UCILLE B ALL
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    If youth only knew; if age only could.
    â€” H ENRI E STIENNE
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    When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
    â€”Los Angeles Times
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    The person who says youth is a state of mind invariably has more state of mind than youth.
    â€”
American Farm and Home Almanac
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    If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
    â€” A BRAHAM S UTZKEVER
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    Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.
    â€” S EN. T HEODORE F RANCIS G REEN
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    You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
    â€” M ICHAEL P RITCHARD
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    We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
    â€” B OB B OWEN
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    I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
    â€” A LICE R OOSEVELT L ONGWORTH
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    The joy that is felt at the sight of new-fallen snow is inversely proportional to the age of the beholder.
    â€” P AUL S WEENEY
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    Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
    â€” J EANNE M OREAU
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    Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
    â€” F RANCIS B ACON
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    Growing up is usually so painful that people make comedies out of it to soften the memory.
    â€” J OHN G REENWALD
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    Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.
    â€” M ALCOLM DE C HAZAL
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    When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.
    â€” L ADY B IRD J OHNSON
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    Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
    â€” C HARLES S CHULZ
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    People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
    â€” D OUG L ARSON
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    There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
    â€” M IGNON M C L AUGHLIN
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    It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
    â€” Quoted by R AYMOND A . M ICHEL
    in
The Leaf
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    Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever.
    â€” D ON M ARQUIS
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    Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
    â€” H AROLD C OFFIN
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    Middle age is when you begin to wonder who put the quicksand into the hourglass of time.
    â€”The Orben Comedy Letter
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    Midlife crisis is that moment when you realize your children and your clothes are about the same age.
    â€” B ILL T AMMEUS
    in Kansas