"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."

Age, Home, Hope, Middleage

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

Willa Cather, American Author

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"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Age, Belief, Disguise

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Age, Care, Importance

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Age, Old, Youth

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel."

Jerry Della Femina, American Businessman

Age, Forget

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

John Burroughs, American Author

Age, Light, Old

"All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?"

Frank Harris, Irish Author

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

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"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive."

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

Marriage

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"

Society

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

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"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"

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"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."

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"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."

"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."

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

"Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth."

"If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it."

"A lot of its readers are of an age where they forget to cancel."

"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

"All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?"

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"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."

"The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk."

"Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?"

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

"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive."

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

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"

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

"Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?"

"The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control."