Quotes with age-appropriate

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  • Thomas Hardy The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • William Shakespeare The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Wordsworth The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • William Hazlitt The worst old age is that of the mind.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Boris Pasternak The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Billy Boyd Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bram Stoker There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
    Dracula Dracula (2007 edition), Book Jungle
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bill Bryson There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Sophia Loren There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap into this source, you will truly have defeated age.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Will Durant There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bruce Lipton There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • J. B. Priestley There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Edith Wharton There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bill Medley There's this Bruno Mars guy. I met him in Hawaii when was doing Elvis imitations at the age of about five or six years old. There's a lot of old school in him. He's got a depth that I just love.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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