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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does
- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But
only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you
find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened
before you.
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by
tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get
older.
Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication,
because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965), 1940
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and
strength.
Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just
you.
Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are
the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
The great secret that all old people share is that you
really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes,
but you don't change at all.
Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive
to become old fools.
Doug Larson
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to
when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that
milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain
about growing old - many, many people do not have that
privilege.'
Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow,
one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration
if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual
curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small
ways.
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of
the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by
freedom of death.
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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