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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
-Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
-W. H. Auden
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Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
-Francis Bacon
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
-Francis Bacon
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
-Francis Bacon
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Judges don't age; time decorates them.
-Enid Bagnold
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-Lucille Ball
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Old age is the verdict of life.
-Amelia E. Barr
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You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
-James Barrie
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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
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
-Bernard Baruch
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Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
-May L. Becker
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We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.
-Samuel Beckett
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To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
-Samuel Beckett
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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
-Robert Benchley
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-Jack Benny
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It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.
-Patty Berg, on her 80th birthday
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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
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I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.
-Milton Berle
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Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16
-Bible
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While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18
-Bible
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With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. Job 12:12
-Bible
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Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Books about Age
