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The only thing I regret about my past life is the length of it. If I had my past life over again I'd make all the same mistakes only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead

They are usually fat but not too fat to tie your shoelaces. They wear glasses and sometimes they can take their teeth out.
- Child quoted by Annejet Campbell "Listen to the Children"

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backwards; to look forward we must believe in age.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- Sophocles

Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality.
- Emily Dickinson

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
- Simone de Beauvoir

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Augustine

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.
- Longfellow

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
- Shelley Winters

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is the only real counsellor, wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
- Edith Wharton

My legs have become very ugly. But then, what use would beautiful legs be to a women of 85?
- Dame Rebecca West

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
- Baroness Edith Summerskill

'Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.'
- from Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
- Satchell Paige

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
- I F Stone

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

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