• Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.4 · 31 votes · 29 reads

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 48 reads

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• An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United State

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  4.8 · 28 votes · 129 reads

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• An old man loved is winter with flowers.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.5 · 38 votes · 14 reads

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• An old young man, will be a young old man.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 10 votes · 13 reads

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• An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 14 votes · 36 reads

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• Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 74 reads

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• As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure sti

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 31 votes · 116 reads

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 72 reads

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• As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 86 reads

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.7 · 15 votes · 60 reads

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• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.9 · 11 votes · 77 reads

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• At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.2 · 55 votes · 197 reads

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• At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 32 votes · 114 reads

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• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 83 reads

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• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 115 reads

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• At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 98 reads

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 185 reads

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• Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 57 reads

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• Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.8 · 47 votes · 46 reads

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• Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 172 reads

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• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 54 reads

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• Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 44 reads

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• Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.9 · 50 votes · 43 reads

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• Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.9 · 5 votes · 104 reads

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• Few people know how to be old.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 30 reads

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• Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 103 reads

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• For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 115 reads

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• Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 43 reads

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• From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 199 reads

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• Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 133 reads

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• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 30 reads

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• Grow old with me the best is yet to come.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 55 reads

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• Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.8 · 17 votes · 79 reads

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• Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 64 votes · 154 reads

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• He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 157 reads

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• He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 167 reads

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• He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 140 reads

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• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 126 reads

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• How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 178 reads

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• How earthy old people become -moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 7 reads

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• How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 9 reads

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• I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine -and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so -and now the dros

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 119 reads

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• I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.1 · 53 votes · 135 reads

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• I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 100 reads

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• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 166 reads

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• I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 3 reads

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• I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.4 · 46 votes · 163 reads

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• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 163 reads

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 178 reads

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• I'm much more open to being a supporting actor right now. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 111 reads

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• I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 64 reads

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• If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.3 · 32 votes · 53 reads

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• If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.6 · 31 votes · 118 reads

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• If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 32 votes · 138 reads

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• In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 61 reads

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• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 86 reads

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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  

  Luis Buñuel

  Film directorSpanish1900 · 19th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 122 reads

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• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 41 reads

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• It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 36 votes · 139 reads

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• It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 91 reads

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 132 reads

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• It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 55 reads

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• It takes a long time to become young.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 104 reads

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• It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.4 · 27 votes · 54 reads

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• Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.''

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 11 reads

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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 131 reads

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• Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.8 · 43 votes · 137 reads

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• Live your life and forget your age.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 55 reads

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• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 188 reads

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• Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 34 reads

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• Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 5 votes · 55 reads

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• Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 13 votes · 175 reads

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 29 reads

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• Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.6 · 13 votes · 55 reads

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• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  

  Daniel Defoe

  AuthorBritish1660 · 17th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 55 reads

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• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 143 reads

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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 158 reads

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• My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that ''Carpe Diem'' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds - for who can trust to tomorrow?

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 179 reads

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• Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 174 reads

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