posted December 02, 2007 11:39 AM              

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Hervey Allen

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posted December 02, 2007 11:41 AM              

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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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posted December 02, 2007 11:42 AM              

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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

~Chili Davis

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

~Dorothy Fulheim

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posted December 02, 2007 11:43 AM              

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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown

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posted December 02, 2007 11:45 AM              

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Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

Edward Steichen

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posted December 02, 2007 11:46 AM              

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You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.

- John P. Grier

Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

- C.E.M. Joad

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posted December 02, 2007 11:48 AM              

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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

- Georges Clemenceau

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posted December 02, 2007 11:50 AM              

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“It takes a long time to grow young.”

Pablo Picasso

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posted December 02, 2007 11:51 AM              

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“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln

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posted December 02, 2007 11:52 AM              

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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot: Birthday Quote

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posted December 02, 2007 11:53 AM              

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The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.

Cicero

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posted December 02, 2007 11:54 AM              

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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posted December 02, 2007 11:55 AM              

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Art Buchwald

The best things in life aren't things.

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posted December 02, 2007 11:59 AM              

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka

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posted December 02, 2007 12:00 PM              

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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing,... - Andre Gide

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posted December 02, 2007 12:02 PM              

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"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"

"One."

- Lewis Carroll

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posted December 02, 2007 12:02 PM              

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

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posted December 02, 2007 12:03 PM              

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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. -

Virginia Woolf

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posted December 02, 2007 12:05 PM              

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We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

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posted December 02, 2007 12:06 PM              

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An old man loved is winter with flowers.

- German proverb

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posted December 02, 2007 12:08 PM              

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What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. - Brigitte Bardot

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

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posted December 02, 2007 12:08 PM              

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In a dream you are never eighty.

- Anne Sexton

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posted December 02, 2007 12:09 PM              

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One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

- William Feather

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posted December 02, 2007 12:10 PM              

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Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

- Molly Keane

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posted December 02, 2007 12:11 PM              

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Oscar Wilde

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