It is better to rust out than wear out.

—Edwin Markham

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Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham; April 23, 1852 – March 7, 1940) was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.

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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

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You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

—George Burns

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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

—Edith Wharton

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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

—George Burns

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I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

—From a 1975 interview with Mick Jagger, who still performs the song at age sixty-seven

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