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Age

«Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.»
Author: Anne Bradstreet | About: Age, Youth | Keywords: improving, middle age, spending
«When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.»
«Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life»
Author: Carolyn Wells | About: Age, Youth | Keywords: beg, boon, ills, rife, rife with, silly, vapid
«When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.»
«Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.»
«Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.»
Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | About: Age, Art, Youth | Keywords: The Gift, work of art, youth
«Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.»
Author: Tom Wilson | About: Age, Wisdom | Keywords: age, come with, Coming of age, necessarily, shows
«You are not permitted to kill a woman who has injured you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.»
«When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow more loyal to situations and to types»
Author: Cyril Connolly | About: Age
«Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.»