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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
-- Willa Cather


If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
-- I. F. Stone


I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
-- Carol Burnett


One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.
-- Lee Marvin


Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
-- Margaret Atwood


It is very strange that the years teach us patience -- that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
-- Elizabeth Taylor


It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-- Jackie Mason


I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that does make my sons look illegitimate.
-- Nancy Astor


A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
-- Miles Davis


To me, old age is 15 years older than I am.
-- Bernard M. Baruch


When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my 50s I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.
-- George Burns

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