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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
-Josh Billings
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In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
-Josh Billings
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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
-Alan Bleasdale
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
-Bonstettin
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
-J. F. Boyse
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
-Anita Brookner
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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
-Captain J. Brown
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I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
-Rita Mae Brown
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Aurora Leigh
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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
-Pearl Buck
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If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.
-Jimmy Buffett
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
-Luis Bunuel
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A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
-Billie Burke
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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
-Billie Burke
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Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
-Billie Burke
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It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
-George Burns
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
-George Burns
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How can I die? I'm booked.
-George Burns
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
-George Burns
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
-George Burns
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You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
-George Burns
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How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
-John Burroughs
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To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.
-Andre B. Buruch
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Books about Age
