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Age

«The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.»
Author: Bob Wells | About: Age, Body, Elderly | Keywords: ossified, ossify
«Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.»
«The trick is growing up without growing old.»
Author: Casey Stengel (Baseball Player, Manager) | About: Age | Keywords: growing, trick
«The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship»
«The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing»
«Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.»
«The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity»
«The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.»
«The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Age, Life, Soul | Keywords: comedy
«The ripest fruit first falls»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Age | Keywords: ripest