"After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone……" — Henry Green
"After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now.""
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- Now is the age of anxiety. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
- Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. — Francis Bacon
- I left school on my 15th birthday. — David Bailey
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity,… — Russell Baker
- Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful… — Johnny Ball
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
- There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. — Franklin P. Adams
- Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the… — Franklin P. Adams