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3 December 2020 David Ogilvy

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

3 December 2020 John Adams

Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

3 December 2020 Franklin P. Adams

There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.

3 December 2020 Andre Maurois

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

3 December 2020 Martha Beck

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.

3 December 2020 William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

3 December 2020 Harlan Coben

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing – it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe

I don’t care about age very much.

3 December 2020 James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

3 December 2020 Hosea Ballou

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

3 December 2020 Lillie Langtry

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

3 December 2020 John Mayer

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel

I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.

3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine

I’ve gotten crankier in my old age.

3 December 2020 Peter Ustinov

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

3 December 2020 Anna Kendrick

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.

3 December 2020 Lance Bass

In my older age, I’ve learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

3 December 2020 George Sand

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

3 December 2020 Helen Hayes

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

3 December 2020 Doris Day

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

3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

3 December 2020 Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

3 December 2020 Jack Benny

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

3 December 2020 Mia Wasikowska

You never choose the way that you’re raised, it’s just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you’re in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you’ve been formed by your surroundings.

3 December 2020 Harrison Ford

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

3 December 2020 Joni Mitchell

I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term.

3 December 2020 Joan Jett

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

3 December 2020 Jack White

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends’ grandparents.

3 December 2020 Julie Walters

It’s getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

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