“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.”
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“All diseases run into one, old age.”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”
“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
“Age considers youth ventures.”
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
“I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.”
“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.”
“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”
“I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.”
“The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.”
“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
“We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.”
“Education is the best provision for old age.”