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Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo The Last Puritan and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

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

I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about a hundred years.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.

First you forget names then you forget faces then you forget to pull your zipper up then you forget to pull your zipper down.

Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

No gains without pains.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

When pain ends gain ends too.

Old foxes want no tutors.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.