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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.Eric Hoffer
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.Pindar
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.William Shakespeare
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.Henry David Thoreau
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.Mark Twain
Age withers only the outside.Author Unknown