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Albert Einstein:

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. letter to Otto Juliusburger

Benjamin Franklin:

All would live long, but none would be old.

Edith Wharton:

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Elizabeth Arden:

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

Florida Scott-Maxwell:

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Harriet Beecher Stowe:

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Helen Hayes:

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Keller:

It is not possible for civilization to flow backward while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.

Lady Diana Cooper:

First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful.

Madeleine L'Engle:

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Madeleine L'Engle:

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.


ah so true

if wrinkles must be written upon our brows,let them not be written upon the heart.The spirit should never grow old.

james A. garfield

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

John Burroughs

The Woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Chinese proverb

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

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

John Burroughs

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank A. Clark

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Pearl S. Buck

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.


J. B. Priestley