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The secret of life is to skip having children and go directly to grandchildren.
- Mel Lazarus

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age.
- George Santayana

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happines too is an idol of the marketplace. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish, - all duties even.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all;
Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
- Robert Browning

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
- Oscar Wilde

A man not old, but mellow, like fine wine.
- Stephen Phillips

America is a country where the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Oscar Wilde

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
- George Satayana

With mirth and mystery let old wrinkles come.
- William Shakespeare

I an the oldest living man - especially at seven in the morning.
- Robert Benchley

The older I get, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken

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