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    The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.

by Maurice Chevalier Found in: Age Quotes,
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For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
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For oute of olde feldys, as men sey,
Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;
And out of old bokis, in good fey,
Comyth al this newe science that men lere.

by Geoffrey Chaucer Found in: Age Quotes,
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

by Joan Collins Found in: Age Quotes,
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

by Francis Bacon Found in: Age Quotes,
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

by Jeanne Moreau Found in: Age Quotes,
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with read more

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

by James Joyce Found in: Age Quotes,
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a read more

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

by Anatole France Found in: Age Quotes,
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If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, read more

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

by Judith Viorst Found in: Age Quotes,
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