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You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore. — M. Emmet Walsh
Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word 'experienced'. — Morgan Freeman
My brain cannot conceive how old my body is. — Michael Douglas
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. — Meryl Streep
Getting old is not for sissies, kid. — Frank Langella
The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age. — Ben Kingsley
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of… — George Sand
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young. — Margaret Mead
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Oh, my God. I've just told you how old I am. Nobody knows how old I am. I'm going to have to kill you now. — Rita Rudner
She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young… — Doris Lessing
The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient… — Lydia M. Child
I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I've seen women of thirty-five who are old and people of… — Joan Collins
When you're 16, you think 28 is so old! And then you get to 28 and it's fabulous. You think, then, what about 42? Ugh!… — Helen Mirren
I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine.… — Queen Latifah
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out. — William Shakespeare
The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh… — John Stott
Perhaps love makes us grow old before our time and makes us young again when youth has passed. — Paulo Coelho
As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. — Erma Bombeck
I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear. — Phyllis Diller
I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White
Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as… — George Burns
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. — Henry Ford
You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. — Joan Rivers

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