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There's an experienced rebel, Time, And in his squadrons Poverty; There's Age that brings along with him A terrible artillery: And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown, Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

1682

★ 1.8

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

1933

★ 1.8

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

You're getting on. You're pushing 30, slugger. You know, it's time to think about getting some ambition.

On the Waterfront · 1954

★ 1.9

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

A Dance to the Music of Time · 1973

★ 1.9

We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age — Are they withered in the sod?

Charlotte Bronte

1835

★ 1.9

Song · Pop music

But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want, or you can just get old.

Vienna · 1977

★ 1.9

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

The Daily Telegraph · 1988

★ 1.9

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.0

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

No man loves like him that's growing old.

Acrisius · 400 BC

★ 2.1

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

★ 2.1

Film · Crime thriller (film) · Thriller (film) · Crime thriller · Thriller

Age will flatten a man.

No Country for Old Men · 2007

★ 2.1

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

1741

★ 2.2

Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

1932

★ 2.7

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net.

Franklin P. Adams

1944

★ 3.4

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

1967

★ 3.5

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Robert Browning

1864

★ 3.5

Oh! the old swimmin' hole! When I last saw the place, The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face.

James Whitcomb Riley

1883

★ 3.5

Our hair turns white with our ripening as though to fly away in some coming wind, bearing the seed of what we know.

1980

★ 3.5

When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

The Sense of an Ending · 2011

★ 3.5

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face.

1631

★ 3.6

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