As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
-Cicero
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
-Maurice Chevalier
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
-Jean Rostand
Age � is a matter of feeling, not of years.
-George William Curtis
Age-that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
-Ambrose Bierce
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
-H. L. Mencken
Only the young die good.
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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.
-Chinese Proverb
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
-Benjamin Franklin
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
-Tryon Edwards
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
-James A. Garfield
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
-Lady Astor
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
-Andre Maurois
There are three ways of knowing you're getting really old: One is memory loss . . . . and I've forgotten the other two.
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Age can never hope to win you while your heart is young.
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Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country; such as the individual, honor and religion.
-R. P. Lebret
The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
-Robert Green Ingersoll
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
-Mark Twain
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
-Thomas Carlyle
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind ofAge does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
-Tryon Edwards
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
-James A. Garfield
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
-Lady Astor
There are three ways of knowing you're getting really old: One is memory loss . . . . and I've forgotten the other two.
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Age can never hope to win you while your heart is young.
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