At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles—wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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“An Unprejudiced Mind,” pp. 319-320Andre Gide
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth, at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty. Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off.
Bertrand Russell
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
Estelle Getty
Beauty is but a flower
Which wrinkles will devour.Thomas Nashe
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
Michel de Montaigne
Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
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