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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

—Doug Larson

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Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

—Mitch Hedberg

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The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

—Mark Twain

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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

—Shelley Winters

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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

—Kurt Vonnegut

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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

—George Burns

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

—Leon Trotsky

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Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.

—Maurice Chevalier

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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

—John Burroughs

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When I dream, I am always ageless.

—Elizabeth Coatsworth

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Too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that.

—Walt Disney

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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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How can one accept — let alone enjoy — aging in a culture where God is twenty-five; where advertisements are filled with twenty-somethings in halter tops and tight t-shirts, unless the ad is for a drug to treat incontinence, high blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol? What about the wisdom of age? What about endurance? What about the beauty of a face etched by years that were not always easy?

—Genie Zeiger

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

—Herbert Henry Asquith

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