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" Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. "

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" Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. "

Louis Kronenberger

" Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. "

" 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. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. "

W. Somerset Maugham

" The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was 'time pass.' Would time not have passed if he hadn't watched the film? "

" Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. "

" When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. "

" When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed. "

Walter Cronkite

" It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. "

" Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. "

Brigitte Bardot

" Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. "

" That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember. "

" The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. "

" Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. "

Charlotte Bronte

" A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "

" If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch. "

Marshall McLuhan

" Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person. "

" I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me. "

" If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon! "

Sam Taylor-Johnson

" When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity. "

Maria Montessori

" He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. "

" Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age. "

Carol Vorderman

" 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

" Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections. "

" You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome. "

Michael B. Jordan

" If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. "

" Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! "

Pierre Corneille

" The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. "

" By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years. "