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.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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.
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.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
We are always the same age inside.
All diseases run into one, old age.
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.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
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.
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