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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have...

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My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope ...

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The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I alwa...

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You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while y...

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When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...

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The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go...

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George MacDonaldThe Princess and Curdie

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues , a...

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All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year tha...

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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I thin...

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George OrwellDecline Of The English Murder and Other Essays

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...

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I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and th...

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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. Thereverse is true. As one gro...

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Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The...

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Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. An...

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The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state...

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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of m...

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We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got th...

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...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachme...

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I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beaut...

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Dr. Chanter, in his brilliant History of Human Thought in the Twentieth Century, has made the sugges...

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The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the olde...

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Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perf...

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Oh yes", said the old woman, "but I've heard these so-called stoves are by no means all they are sup...

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I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what m...

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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women...

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And our ages never bothered her from the very beginning. I was married, but that didn’t matter, eith...

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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in qu...

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Men are most virile and attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to lea...

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so m...

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Henry David ThoreauWalden & Civil Disobedience

The great fact all the while however had been the incalculability; since he had supposed himself, fr...

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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilig...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ...

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...the Master and the boy followed each other as if drawn along the wires of some mechanism, until s...

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Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much a...

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I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I ...

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For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of th...

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If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did a...

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Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't h...

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For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. O...

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Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work lon...

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From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when...

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Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental...

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Isaac AsimovPebble in the Sky

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much bet...

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There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would...

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age,...

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One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!

He walked into the bathroom, wincing at himself in the mirror, that always more tired older brother.

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J. G. BallardThe Atrocity Exhibition

Draco: Flipendo! ... Keep up, old man.Harry: We're the same age, Draco.Draco: I wear it better.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourse...

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Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit shoul...

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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispens...

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Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police pre...

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One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glor...

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The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a ...

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My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unc...

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James Lee BurkeCrusader's Cross

In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create ha...

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I am 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were 15 months in every year ...

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I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.

The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; th...

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There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don'...

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When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you...

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Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into grou...

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It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for peop...

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Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or ...

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Jenna JamesonHow to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

I want to be a dad. That's floating to the top of my list. I think it's such an important thing. I'm...

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The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things...

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Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.

Cara: I used to believe everything my brother told me, because he was older and I figured he knew mo...

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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

It has had a tremendous impact on my life, more than on the life of most Prize winners, because I wa...

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Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small m...

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doct...

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Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that ...

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Seems to me you put too much stock in the affairs of children. It probably didn't mean anything." "Y...

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