"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Love, Man, Old

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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, Swiss Philosopher

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"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

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"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

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"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

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

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"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."

"Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others."

"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

"Every dogma has its day."

"Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through."

"He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child."

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."