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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

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

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

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

“A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.”

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

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

“The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

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

“Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

“The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.”

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”