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Nobody is too old for fairy tales. – Author unknown

Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. – Ravensara Noite

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it. – Bernard Berenson

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. – Wilma Rudolph

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931

When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul. – Alexander Smith, “An Essay on an Old Subject”

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine. – P.G. Wodehouse

Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. – Author Unknown

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. – Harold Coffin

Old age is a lot of crossed off names in an address book. – Ronald Blythe

My wrinkles are a playground of happy memories. – Terri Guillemets

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. – Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711

The diseases of old age are the diseases of children grown old. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was. – Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696

Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had. – Carrie Latet

Age swallows our childhood. – Terri Guillemets

We are only young once. That is all society can stand. – Bob Bowen