"Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

Eric Bentley, English Critic

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

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"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

Thomas Gold, Austrian Scientist

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"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

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"You can only be twice someone's age once."

"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity."

"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."

"It doesn't matter how old you are.It does matter how much you care."

"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

"Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas."

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

"People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success that's the job of vision."

"In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age."

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"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

"People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."

"Too clever is dumb."

"One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."

"Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."

"I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers."

"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."