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Age

By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. – Author Unknown

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. – Logan Pearsall Smith

We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse. – Author Unknown

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. – Judith Regan

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. – Mark Twain, letter to Edward Dimmit, 1901 July 19th

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. – Voltaire

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewi

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. – Carol Grace

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm

Few people know how to be old. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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. – Henri Amiel

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. – Leo Rosenberg

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. – Marty Bucella