None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
We are always the same age inside.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
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