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“Sometimes when you get olderand I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differentlythings you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and...”
“One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass.”
“Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.”
“Time erodes us all.”
“So this is it what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.”
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
“Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.”
“We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then t...”
“We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.”
“It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dream...”
“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
“The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.”
“Coming down life's highwayAt ninety mile an hour I want to slideWith bad brakes and bald tiresInto my final parking space”
“I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an ”
“Youve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.”
“In short, immaturity is spoiled. And what is spoiled doesnt ripen. It goes bad early, gets bitter and withers on the vine.”
“Suddenly it seemed to me that I looked back from a great distance on that smile and saw it all again - the smile and the day, the whole sunny, sad, funny, wonderful day and all the days that we had...”
“As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.”
“MAGISTRATEDon't men grow old?LYSISTRATANot like women. When a man comes homeThough he's grey as grief he can always get a girl.There's no second spring for a woman. None.She can't recall it, nobody...”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)”
