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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen t

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. – James Thurber

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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. – James Thurber

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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – James Thurber

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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. Im going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. Im not having any work done. – Rachel Bilson

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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. – Julie Burchill

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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