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“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young”
Oscar Wilde
“Old expressions are the best, and short ones even better”
Winston Churchill
“One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.”
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
C.S. Lewis
“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.”
Wayne Dyer
“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
“When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people's affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.”
Dalai Lama
“We don't stop laughing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop laughing”
Michael Pritchard
“We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”
“We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!”
Benjamin Franklin