Mark Twain Quotes, Age Quotes, Earth Quotes

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

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We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

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Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

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It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

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Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

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