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Age

  • Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  • I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

  • You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  • Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

  • Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  • I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

  • In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

  • There is still no cure for the common birthday.

  • Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

  • Old age is a shipwreck.

  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  • It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.

  • He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

  • You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

  • Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  • So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!!!

  • Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  • Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.

  • At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?

  • Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  • Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  • Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

  • All diseases run into one, old age.

  • I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  • The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

  • Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

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

  • The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

  • Old age is no place for sissies.

  • The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

  • Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

  • When you become senile, you won't know it.

  • Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

  • The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

  • Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

  • We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  • 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.

  • Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  • An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

  • A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

  • Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

  • Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  • Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

  • To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

  • You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  • We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  • Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  • A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

  • To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

  • It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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

  • I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

  • Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

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

  • While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

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

 

ANGER

  • How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

  • Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  • Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
    you are the one who gets burned.

  • Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

  • Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.

  • Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

  • Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

  • For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

  • Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

  • If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

  • The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

  • He who angers you conquers you.

  • Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been
    before - it takes something from him.

  • No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

  • Get mad, then get over it.

  • The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international efforts in the world.

  • When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

  • One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

 

COMPUTERS

  • I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

  • The computer is a moron.

  • Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the
    human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

  • The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

  • Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption
    of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

  • What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

  • Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

  • Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

  • To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

  • Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  • They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

  • Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

  • Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

  • Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

  • Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

 

       

       

 

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