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We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old… — Anne Roiphe
The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder. — Lord Chesterfield
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest. — William Hazlitt
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit. — Aeschylus
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain. — Charles Caleb Colton
Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay. — Lord Chesterfield
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach. — Thomas Paine
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. — Joseph Conrad
Age before beauty, and pearls before swine. — Dorothy Parker
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like… — Horace
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. — Bob Hope
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring… — Rumer Godden
We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors. — Anne Roiphe
What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years. — Alfred de Vigny
For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity. — W. Somerset Maugham
That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his… — Thomas Huxley
I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of… — Jennifer Worth
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in… — Michel de Montaigne
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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