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    When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

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It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date read more

It spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in a small way. -Edith Wharton.

by Edith Wharton Found in: Age Quotes,
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each love one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth as I am now.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Age Quotes,
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Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

by Alexander Hamilton Found in: Age Quotes,
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Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

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The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows read more

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

by Eugene O'neill Found in: Age Quotes,
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

by James Thurber Found in: Age Quotes,
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young read more

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Age Quotes,
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The old are in a second childhood.

The old are in a second childhood.

by Aristophanes Found in: Age Quotes,
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