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AGING: Old age is when we begin extolling the past at the expense of the present. (Unknown Source)
AGING: The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Unknown Source)
AGING: It takes a long time to become young. (Unknown Source)
AGING: I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep 
grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. (Unknown source)
AGING: The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)
AGING: Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you! (Nishan Panwar, Indian actor starring in mostly in Malayalam films, as well as in a few languages like Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, Born, 1985)
AGING: No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. (Marie Beynon Ray, U.S. author of self-help books, Died 1969)
AGING: I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the mother of a grand-parent. (Janet Anderson, English Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament, Born 1949)
AGING: Almost the length of the river if past before you learn how to float, at last — before you learn you cannot foreknow the route of the river — not halt its flow. (Ida Oja Donohue, U.S. poet, born 1928)
AGING: My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled. (Red Skelton, U.S. comedy entertainer in radio, television, film, and vaudeville, 1913-1997)
AGING: Grow whole, not old! (Chris Conley, U.S. football player for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League, Born 1992)
AGING: Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois, French author, 1885-1967)
AGING: Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)
AGING: The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832 (Unknown Source)
AGING: It takes a long time to become young. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)
AGING: Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many. (Unknown source)
AGING: You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. (James M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)
AGING: Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional. (Unknown source)
AGING: You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Woody Allen, U.S. actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, Born 1935)
AGING: I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. (Unknown source)
AGING: People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving. (Unknown source)
AGING: Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you! (Nishan Panwar, Indian actor starring in mostly in Malayalam films, as well as in a few languages like Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, Born, 1985)
AGING: Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andri Maurois, French author, 1885-1967)
AGING: Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places. (Ben Klitzner, U.S. family historian, 1918-1981)
AGING: All would live long, but none would be old. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
AGING: You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there. (George Burns, U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television, 1896-1996)
AGING: I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get. (George Burns, U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television, 1896-1996)
AGING: Old age begins the day your descendants outnumber your friends. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light verse, 1902-1971)
AGING: The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)
AGING: Age is a high price to pay for maturity. (Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter who in 1997 was knighted, Born 1937)
AGING: Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life. (Unknown source)
AGING: Not old, just bikini-impaired! (Unknown source)
AGING: Too early old, too late smart! (Unknown source)
AGING: Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)
AGING: In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)
AGING: You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred. (Woody Allen, U.S. actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, Born 1935)
AGING: You’ll find that as your grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you’ve been all along. (Charles Frazier, U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950)
AGING: The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made. (Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)
AGING: Aging is about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. (Eugene O'Neill, U.S. playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1888-1953)
AGING: All would live long, but none would be old. (Proverb)
AGING: Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the Peter principle - managers rise to the level of their incompetence,” 1919-1990)
AGING: It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Brigitte Bardot, French film actress and leading spokesperson for animal rights, Born 1934)
AGING: The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled, the more I gain. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)
AGING: Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Watterson Lowe)