According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better. ~ Gail Sheehy

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing. ~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ~ E.B. White

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,/To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!/As though to breathe were life! ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. ~ Chinese Proverb

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully. ~ Elton John, 2/04

Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. ~ Oscar Wilde

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. ~ Irene Mayer Selznick, The Quotable Woman, 1991

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light. ~ May Sarton

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh. ~ Judith Viorst

Age and beauty do go together.~ Lewis Blackwell, Life & Love of Trees

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself--a lad of about nineteen. ~ E.B. White

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