Archive for the ‘Age’ Category

James Thurber on Age

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

- James Thurber

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Bill Vaughn on Age

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

- Bill Vaughn

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Francis Bacon on Age

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

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

- Francis Bacon

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Marcus Tullius Cicero on Age

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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George Bernard Shaw on Age

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Youth is wasted on the young.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Doris Lessing on Age

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

- Doris Lessing

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Eleanor Roosevelt on Age

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Bill Vaughn on Age

Monday, June 30th, 2008

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.

- Bill Vaughn

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John Glenn on Age

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

- John Glenn

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Bill Vaughn on Age

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

- Bill Vaughn

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