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1) Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin Pierce Adams,
2) The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
3) Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
4) Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny,
5) Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
Ingmar Bergman
6) Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl Buck
7) If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns
8)When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
Cyril Connolly
9) I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says, “Dad, I just can't run with you anymore unless I bring something to read.”
Bill Cosby
10) People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein
11) Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
12) "I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work."
William Ernest Hocking,
13) "No man is ever old enough to know better."
Holbrook Jackson,
14) When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.
When all the world is old, lad,
And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
And all the wheels run down;
Creep home, and take your place there,
The spent and maimed amoung:
God grant you find one face there,
You loved when all was young.
Charles Kingsley,
15) As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
C.S. Lewis,
16) I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
17) There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
18) You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
General Douglas MacArthur
19) One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.
Lee Marvin
20) At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
Ludwig von Mises
21) Like childhood, old age is irresponsible, reckless, and foolhardy. Children and old people have everything to gain and nothing much to lose. It's middle-age which is cursed by the desperate need to cling to some finger-hold halfway up the mountain, to conform, not to cause trouble, to behave well....
Sir John Mortimer,
22) The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
23) We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
24) The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
C H Spurgeon,
25) The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
26) "I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not."
Oscar Wilde,
27) All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Thomas Wolfe
28) "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
George E. Woodberry
29) Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place
. Abigail Van Buren
30) At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
31) While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
32) I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
33) I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
34) It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
35) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
36) Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
37) Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Cato
38) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
39) Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius
40) Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
41)The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
42) The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
43) Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Euripides
and Finally....
44)You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford
.....and he should know! Go Indy!!!-grin-