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Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
- Thomas Dekker
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
- Thomas Dekker
Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow;
he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
- Thomas Dekker
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
- Thomas Dekker
Honest labor bears a lovely face.
- Thomas Dekker
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.
- Thomas Dekker
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
- Thomas Dekker
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This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare
saint in wisdom's school.
- Thomas Dekker
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
- Thomas Dekker
Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day,
nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash,
and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily,
fortune will send it.
- Thomas Dekker
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
- Thomas Dekker
O what a heaven is love!
O what a hell!
- Thomas Dekker
This principle is old, but true as fate,
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
- Thomas Dekker
The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.
- Thomas Dekker
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old
age than into helping them enjoy it.
- Frank Howard Clark
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
- Emily Dickinson
Those who love deeply never grow old;
they may die of old age,
but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- Albert Camus
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts
catching up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin
I'm not interested in age.
People who tell me their age are silly.
You're as old as you feel.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
Age is not a particularly interesting subject.
Anyone can get old.
All you have to do is live long enough.
- Don Marquis
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of
having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
- Jim Fiebig
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth,
but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body,
the mind, and the heart.
And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise,
study, and love.
- Alan Bleasdale
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking
that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
- Don Marquis
Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older,
I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
- Bill Cosby
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
The tendency of old age to the body,
say the physiologists,
is to form bone.
It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old
man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.
Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
- Golda Meir
I will never be an old man.
To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
In youth the days are short and the years are long.
In old age the years are short and day's long.
- Pope Paul VI
I don't believe one grows older.
I think that what happens early on in life is that
at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- T. S. Eliot
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Stanislaw Lec
When a noble life has prepared old age,
it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
- Muriel Spark
The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
- Doris Day
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
- Fay Weldon
What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
He has a profound respect for old age.
Especially when it's bottled.
- Gene Fowler
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful,
kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
- Amos Bronson Alcott
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it,
old age is still old age.
- Sinclair Lewis
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more
absurd than to increase our provisions for the road
the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Age considers; youth ventures.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
- Hosea Ballou
Old age is like everything else.
To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens.
A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not
suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Dwight L. Moody
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.
Middle age is when you're forced to.
- Bill Vaughan
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber
Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles de Gaulle
Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis
As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face.
If you deny that, you deny your heritage.
- Frances Conroy
Old age is an excellent time for outrage.
My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
- Louis Kronenberger
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