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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

-Mark Twain

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

-Henry Ford

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

-Mark Twain

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

-Kurt Vonnegut

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

-Robert Frost

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

-Andrew Carnegie

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

-C. S. Lewis

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

-Confucius

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

-Samuel Ullman

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

-Agatha Christie

All diseases run into one, old age.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

-Aristotle

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

-Bill Cosby

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

-Francis Bacon

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