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• This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Wine, Years

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• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Evil, Youth

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

  Sophocles

  Love Life, Men, Growing

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.

  Tig Notaro

  Wrinkles, Hair, Gray

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• You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

  Mark Twain

  Men, Habit, Protect

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

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• So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

  Epicurus

  Long, Doe, Aging

  Letter to Menoeceus

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• Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Funny, Yoga, Exercise

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• At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

  Peter Ustinov

  Birthday, Peace, War

  Romanoff and Juliet act 1 (1956)

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• No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

  Lynn Johnston

  Happiness, Matter, Looks

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• Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Honored, Knows

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.76

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• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Hair, Getting Older

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Maturity, Perfect, Silly Person

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
  Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
  And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lasts, Lag, Veteran

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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• Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Laughter, Too Much, Aging

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• I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

  Agatha Christie

  Life, Retirement, Thinking

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspiration, Men, Dancing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Morning, Silly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

  Garrison Keillor

  Stories, Answers, Realizing

  Garrison Keillor (2011). “Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel”, p.156, Faber & Faber

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• I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

  Eddie Murphy

  Fixing, Broke

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• Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

  Austin O'Malley

  Real, Medicine, Credit

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• My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disease, Asthma, Five

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.245

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