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Abraham Heschel
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Adolph Zukor
If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself. -Adolph Zukor.
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Aeschylus
It is always in season for old men to learn.
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Agatha Christie
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
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Alan Bleasdale
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.
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Alexander Pope
Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)
You and I are old... Though much is taken, much abides; and thoughWe are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are--One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Allen
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
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Ambrose Bierce
Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
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Ambrose Bierce
Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
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Anatole France
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.
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Andr? Maurois
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
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Andre Maurois
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -Andrew Carnegie.
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Anonymous
People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.
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Anthony Powell
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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