An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it
- James Michener
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Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old
- Goethe
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Pushing forty ? She's hanging on for dear life - Ivy Compton-Burnett
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She has discovered the secret of perpetual middle age
- Oscar Levant
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No man is ever old enough to know better
- Holbrook Jackson
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A woman is always younger than a man of equal years
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers
- Bob Hope
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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music ... and of aviation
- Tom Stoppard
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die,
which is not so
- Stephen Leacock
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
- Albert Einstein
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Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life
- Robert Byrne
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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives
- Maurice Chevalier
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever
- Anatole France
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We do not remember days;
we remember moments
- Unknown
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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future
- Paul Boese
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What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't worry about the world coming to
an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia
- Charles Schultz
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Growing old is manditory,
growing up is optional
- Unknown (Thanks Katherine Orr)
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Life is full of years that mean nothing,
moments that mean all.
- Unknown (Thanks Katherine Orr)
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Adolescent girls today face the issues girls have always faced: Who am I? and Who do I want to be? Unfortunately their answers, now more than ever before, revolve around the body rather than
the mind, heart,
or soul ...