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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

Oh well, perhaps when you're my age you'll know the heart is an untrustworthy beast.The mind too,but it doesn't talk about love.

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Old age is life's parody.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

Old age ain't for sissies

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

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

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her!

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.