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At thirty a man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his ...

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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that ...

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When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the ...

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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d...

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We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the wor...

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If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficul...

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Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he m...

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Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight th...

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For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the w...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up...

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Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog ...

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one ti...

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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos...

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When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class...

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Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for lif...

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In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost...

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Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning bri...

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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student he was expe...

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At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convin...

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Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a res...

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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...

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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, ...

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or scienc...

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G. H. HardyA Mathematician's Apology

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

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Gabriel García MárquezMemories of My Melancholy Whores

I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my ag...

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Galileo GalileiLettere di Galileo Galilei

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

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could n...

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Gene WolfeAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

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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