"Life is a dream walking death is a going home."

Proverb, Chinese on death
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"The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain."

Proverb, Chinese on age and aging
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"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice."

Proverb, Chinese on advice
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on food and eating
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

Proverb, Chinese on decisions
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"A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor."

Rowland, Helen on bachelor
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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

Arden, Elizabeth on age and aging
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"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."

Arnold, Thomas on age and aging   

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

Astaire, Fred on age and aging
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"I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate."

Astor, Lady Nancy on age and aging
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"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on age and aging
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"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

Ali, Muhammad on age and aging
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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on age and aging
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"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on age and aging
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"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Aimee, Anouk on age and aging
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"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started."

Cousins, Norman on purpose
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"Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons."

Cass, Eli on age and aging
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"By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it."

Burns, George on age and aging
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"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on age and aging
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Brown, Les on age and aging
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"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

Billings, Josh on age and aging
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"Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit."

Bierce, Ambrose on age and aging
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"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. [2 Corinthians 4:16]"

Bible on age and aging
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"I hope I never get so old I get religious."

Bergman, Ingmar on age and aging
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"We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves."

Becker, May L. on age and aging
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

Baruch, Bernard M. on age and aging
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life."

Auber, Daniel Francois Esprit on age and aging
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"One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful."

Arnold, Thomas on age and aging   

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table."

Dangerfield, Rodney on age and aging
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"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

Shaw, George Bernard on age and aging
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said Yes, we have no bananas, and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were -- and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more."

Unknown, Source on twentieth century   

"In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on cooperation   

"Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. [Acts 26:24]"

Bible on students   

"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."

West, Rebecca on gossip
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