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" It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "

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" Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "

" I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else. "

" Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. "

Martha Gellhorn

" It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say. "

" Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. "

" In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long. "

" In youth we learn; in age we understand. "

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

" Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. "

" Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. "

Washington Irving

" I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. "

" The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice. "

" Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will. "

Lysander Spooner

" When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door. "

" Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them. "

" We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date. "

Douglas Coupland

" I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now. "

" Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. "

" In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame. "

" He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. "

" I was in my second year at NYU. I knew what I wanted to do, and I just walked out of college. So, from the age of 17, I've been able to do what I wanted, and that makes for a kind of contentment, a fairly pleasant demeanor. "

" I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same. "

" We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the juniors, and one other teacher taught the infants. I went there from the age of three, no doubt as a form of childcare. "

" When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. "

" Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love. "

Russell M. Nelson

" Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? "

" When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me. "

" We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. "

" Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock. "