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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Workout, People

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.4, 谷月社

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• When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

  "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Age, Looks

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

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• In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Hair, Years

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Time, Age

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Birthday, Men, Feelings

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• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Witty, Work

  1942 The Secret Life of Salvador Dal|¤, prologue.

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• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Time, Maturity

  Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

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• Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, May

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Exercise, Up Early

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Growing Up, 50th Birthday

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Birthday, Success, Nursing

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2018

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• You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

  Timothy Leary

  Change, Positive Thinking, Mind

  "Office Yoga : Simple Stretches for Busy People" by Darrin Zeer, (p. 52), 2000.

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• The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  Doris Lessing

  Birthday, Time, Years

  The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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• Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Forgiveness, Time, Forgiving

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"

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  You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  George Burns

  Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

  George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Lost Youth, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.164, Diversion Books

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• Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Age, Ornaments

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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