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" Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. "

Douglas MacArthur

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" I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. "

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" My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy. "

" Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost. "

" Age is inevitable. Aging isn't. "

" Age is not important unless you're a cheese. "

" The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself. "

Douglas MacArthur

" At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin. "

" The three touchstones that woke Buddha up - sickness, old age, and death - are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential. "

Paul Di Filippo

" Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. "

John Polkinghorne

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

Amos Bronson Alcott

" I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life. "

" I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago. "

" Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age. "

Sherwin B. Nuland

" It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work. "

Chirlane McCray

" I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles. "

" 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. "

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

Theodore Roosevelt

" I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. "

" No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. "

" People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error. "

" A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. "

Maurice Chevalier

" Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. "

" Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come. "

" I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career. "

" Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

" I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. "

" It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. "

" The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. "

" Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do. "