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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.
    â€” B ILL V AUGHN
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    What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
    â€” V OLTAIRE
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    I don’t know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
    â€” D OLLY P ARTON
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    I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old—or being young, for that matter.
    â€” K ATHARINE H EPBURN
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    Old age is having too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet.
    â€”Orben’s Current Comedy
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    When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
    â€” V ICTOR H UGO
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    A young boy is a theory; an old man is a fact.
    â€” E D H OWE
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    Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
    â€” M ARGARET W ILLOUR
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    The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
    â€” H . L . M ENCKEN
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    Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
    â€” T OM W ILSON
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    You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
    â€” J OHN N UVEEN
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    Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
    â€” J AMES E . S HAPIRO
    Meditations From the Breakdown Lane
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    The best thing about being young is, if you had to do it all over again, you would still have time.
    â€” S ANDRA C LARKE
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    If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we’d saved enough to enjoy it.
    â€” J IM F IEBIG
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    Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.
    â€” A FRICAN PROVERB
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    You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits and don’t mind being contradicted.
    â€” M ARIE VON E BNER- E SCHENBACH
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    You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.
    â€”The Sword of the Lord
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    A grownup is a child with layers on.
    â€” W OODY H ARRELSON
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    When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.
    â€” C ARY G RANT
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    To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.
    â€” R OGER K AHN
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    I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more, as I grow older.
    â€” M ONTAIGNE
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    The older you get, the more important it is not to act your age.
    â€” A SHLEIGH B RILLIANT
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    The trick is growing up without growing old.
    â€” C ASEY S TENGEL
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    Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.
    â€” K ENNY R OGERS
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    The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.
    â€” D OUG L ARSON
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    A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
    â€” O LIVER W ENDELL H OLMES S R.
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    After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
    â€” B ETTE M IDLER
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    We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old, but more like ourselves.
    â€” M AY L AMBERTON B ECKER
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    The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
    â€” W ALTERS K EMP
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    One advantage in growing older is that you can stand for more and fall for less.
    â€” M ONTA C RANE
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    The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
    â€” R OBERT O RBEN
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    The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.
    â€” G ERMAIN G . G LIDDEN
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    We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
    â€” F RANK A . C LARK
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