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Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

Aristotle
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Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. -Oscar Wilde
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Oscar Wilde
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I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. -Oscar Wilde
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Sallust
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The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.'

Scott Adams
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There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise. -Sophocles
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Fred Hoyle
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. -Benjamin Franklin
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead
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We grow too soon old and too late smart.

Dutch Proverb
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. -Cyril Connolly
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To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing.

German Proverb
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

George F. Burns
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People age even when you're not looking. -Randy K. Milholland
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

George F. Burns
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. -Gore Vidal
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright
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Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

Marshall Ganz
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It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. -Jean Paul Richter
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I grow more intense as I age.

Florida Scott Maxwell
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee
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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. -Bob Wells
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

Plutarch
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

Gerald Brenan
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. -Maurice Chevalier
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