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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”
Oscar Wilde
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still.”
William Shakespeare
“Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better”
Winston Churchill
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
“Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.”
Alan Cox
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
Maggie Kuhn
“Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
Helen Rowland
