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Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

Old enough to know better, young enough to do it anyway.

Come, thieving time, take what you must,
Quickness to move, to hear, to see,
When dust gathers near to dust,
Such diminutions need must be,
But leave, O leave, exempt from plunder,
My sense of humor, curiosity, and wonder.
-Anonymous poem, from 93 year-old lady, given to her pastor in Washington church

Youth is when we are always hunting greener pastures, and middle age is when we can barely mow the one we've got.

Old age comes at a bad time.

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.

The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage

There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory, the other two I forget.

You're getting old when you don't care where your spouse goes, just as long as you don't have to go along.

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day she locked me in the cellar.

Only the good die young, which explains the average age of Congressmen.

God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

Every day I break my own record for the number of consecutive days I've been alive.

Three ages of man.
1. You do believe in Father Christmas.
2. You do not believe in Father Christmas.
3. You are Father Christmas.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
No. The *best* thing about growing older is that more members of the opposite sex look attractive. GJW.

Gemu ba ya hana ilimi- A beard (old age) is not a barrier to knowledge. -Hausa proverb, Nigeria.

Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains. -- RUSSIAN PROVERBS

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish tokeep them in working order. - John Quincy Adams

In his book _The Meaning of Faith_, Harry Emerson Fosdick gave the account of John Quincy Adams, then 80 years old as he met a friend on a Boston Street. "Good morning," said the friend, "and how is John Quincy Adams today?" "Thank you," the ex-president replied. "John Quincy Adams himself is well, quite well, thank you. But the house in which he lives at present is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering upon its foundation. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed it. Its roof is pretty well worn out. The walls are much shattered, and it trembles with every wind. The old tenement is becoming almost uninhabitable, and I think John Quincy Adams will have to move out of it soon. But he himself is quite well, quite well." This attitude has been called "body transcendence." It means you do not judge yourself solely on the state of your body. Aging does not automatically cause one to be less of a person. We can still maintain many of our abilities. As we grow older, we can continue to acquire wisdom, to love more deeply and to continue to contribute to the life of the world about us. --Charles L. Allen

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common -- discontent.-- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still endures.-- Marcus Aurelius, _Meditations_, 2ndC A. D.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon. 1561-1626 Of Youth and Age.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust. -- Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. Of Studies.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball (1911-1989) In "An Uncommon Scold," by Abby Adams, 1989.

It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. - Brigitte Bardot

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. - Brigitte Bardot (1934-____)In "The Harper Book of Quotations," by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

If I were younger, I'd know more. -- James Barrie

A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Bernard M. Baruch (1870 &endash; 1965)

Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life. Prov. 16:31

Old Age, n. That time in life when we condemn the vices we no longer have the enterprise to commit.The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made.
Robert Browning "'Rabbi Ben Ezra"
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.- John Buchan (1875-1940) "The Wise Years."

Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. - Billie Burke, 1886 - 1970

If you live to the age of a hundred, you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.-- BURNS, GEORGE (1896-19

We all know the troubles of old age. The bones creak; the eyes get dim, oneforgets names.. The spark does not ignite; adrenalin has lost its potency. But there is something to be said on the other side... The beauty of nature has lost none of its charm; the beauty of women none of its benediction. There is.a possibility of growing old gracefully, and with content in one's heart.~ Vannevar Bush 1890-1974, Letter, 1971

Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb;
And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron [George Noel Gordon] (1788-1824) _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_ , Canto III [1816], st. 8

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. -Sebastien Chamfort

I prefer old age to the alternative. -- Maurice Chevalier

Age ... is a matter of feeling, not of years.--George William Curtis

Old age is no place for sissies. - Bette Davis

You can stay young as long as you learn. - Emily Dickinson

I feel so sorry for folks who don't like to grow old. I revel in my years. They enrich me. If God should say to me, `I will let you begin over again and you may have your youth back once more,' I should say, `If You do not mind, I prefer to go on growing old.' I would not exchange the peace of mind, the abiding rest of soul, the measure of wisdom I have gained from the sweet and bitter and perplexing experiences of life. These are the best years of my life--the sweetest, and the most free from anxious care. The way grows brighter, the birds sing sweeter, the winds blow softer, the sun shines more radiantly than ever before....My `outward man' is perishing, but my `inward man' is being joyously renewed day by day.--Henry Durbanville

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of Mother or Father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.-- EINSTEIN, ALBERT (1879-1955)

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. T.S. Eliot

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. -- Benjamin Franklin

An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard.--Thomas Fuller, M.D. (1654-1734), _Gnomologia_ [1732]

The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much. -- Germain G. Glidden

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. - William Golding (1911-1993)

I love everything that 's old,--old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. -- Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer, act i.

It is proven that the celebration of birthdays is healthy. Statistics show that those people who celebrate the most birthdays become the oldest. - S. den Hartog, Ph.D

Age is not important unless you're a cheese. - Helen Hayes

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, _The Guardian Angel_, 1867

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. -- Bob Hope

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 BC)_Epistles_, bk. II, epistle ii, line 55

Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do. - Richard Hughes (1900 &endash;1976)

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.~Victor Hugo

There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better." -- William R. Inge

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. - Pope John XXIII

I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age. -- Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell (Dec 7, 1782

So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future or backward to the past, and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally producs, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. -- Samuel Johnson

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy. - Samuel Johnson: Rambler #111

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) "Essays in Persuasion," "The Future," 1931.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.~Madeleine L'Engle

The long dull monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the Devil.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) "The Screwtape Letters," 1941

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better. MARTIN LUTHER

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. - General Douglas MacArthur

The shadows of the evening that precedes a lovelier morning are drawing down around us both. But our God is in the shadow as in the shine, and all is and will be well: have we not seen his glory in the face of Jesus? and do we not know him a little? . . . This life is a lovely time, but I never was content with it. I look for better --- oh, so far better! I think we do not yet know the joy of mere existence. . . . May the loving Father be near you and may you know it, and be perfectly at peace all the way into the home country, and to the palace home of the living one -- the life of our life." --George MacDonald, Letter of November 11, 1894

Age ain't nothin' but a number. But age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba

Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read! Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things. -- Melchior: Floresta Espaqola de Apothegmas o sentencias, etc., ii. 1, 20.

Time, the subtle thief of youth.--John Milton (1608-1674) _On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-three_ [1631]

Allah has made a medicine for every disease except old age. Hadith, Abu Dawud vol.3 no.3846 p.1083

Old age is an island surrounded by death.-- Juan Montalvo, "On Beauty"

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.- Saki (1870-1916) H. H. Munro: "Reginald at the Carlton."

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, & wills.-Richard Needham

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Satchel Paige

Thanks people, that confirms my worst fears re my creeping senility. These days I walk into a room full of people and the only name I can remember is Alzheimer. -- pavlov@hotmail.com

Some old women and men grow bitter with age. The more their teeth drop out the more biting they get.
George Dennison Prentice (1802-1870) Prenticeana [1860]

No-one is ever too old to know better. - Margaret Preston

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going. --J. B. Priestly (1894-1984)

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. -- La Rochefoucauld

My mother used to say: the older you get, the better you get -unless you're a banana. ~ Rose, "The Golden Girls"

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

The years pass more quickly as we become older. --Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_ [1851], "Counsels and Maxims"

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. -- Charles Schulz

The older I wax the better I shall appear. ~WS, Henry V , 5.2

To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)_Sonnets_ [1609], Sonnet 104, line 1 Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
"I do that too," laughed the old man."
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
"But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
"I know what you mean," said the old man.
Shel Silverstein
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. --Philip Dormer Stanhope

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen. - James Stephens -Observer, 10 Oct. 1944

Inside every older person, there's a younger person wondering what happened. Gloria Swanson (1897-1983)

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.-- Gloria Swanson (1897-1983) "Swanson On Swanson," 1981.

No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. -- Terence. 185-159 B.C. Adelphoe .Sc.8,30.(953.)

Age steals away all things, even the mind.--Virgil (70-19 BC)

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. --John Wesley (1703-1791) Letter, 21 Feb 1756 to Samuel Furley.

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest, soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. J ohn Webster: Westward Hoe, act ii. sc. 2.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

There's one advantage to being 102. No peer pressure. ~ Dennis Wolfberg

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. - Henny Youngman