"Few people know how to be old."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Aging, Wisdom, Life, Experience

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"You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering."

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

Aging, Memory, Time, Fear

"The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Aging, Life, Freedom, Confidence

"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

Aging, Time, Emotion, Change

"The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

Aging, Life, Time, Reflection

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Aging, Responsibility, Appearance, Life

"I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

Aging, Care, Experience, Indifference

"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Aging, Youth, Old, Time, Mistake

"I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Aging, Death, Wisdom, Acceptance

"Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

Aging, Regret, Truth, Life

"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Aging, Truth, Humanity, Independence

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"You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering."

"The older I get the less I care what other people think of me. Therefore the older I get the more I enjoy life."

"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."

"The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether."

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."

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"Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it."

"With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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