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.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
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.
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.
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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.
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.
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