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 The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)

 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent
  Michel de Montaigne

 To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
  Bertrand Russell

 To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.

 Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.
  Walt Disney

 What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories
  William Somerset Maugham

 When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
  Arthur C. Clarke

 When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
  Oscar Wilde

 When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth.

 When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
  Eugene O'Neill

 Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism i

 You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

 You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thinking, "Gee, I wonder what her mother looks like


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