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“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

“As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.”

“Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.”

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

“grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.”

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“Time and tide wait for no man.”

“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”

“Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.”

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

“Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.”

“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”

“The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.”

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”

“I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.”

“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.”

“The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.”