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To: KLP who wrote (432873)	6/23/2011 3:50:41 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 794490

And to go along with that: Quotes of folks past 50.... 50th Birthday Quotes The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. - T.S. Eliot Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty. - Joan Rivers At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves. - George Orwell The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammad Ali You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. - Henry Ford 60th Birthday Quotes A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. - Arnold Bennett Some people reach the age of sixty before others. - Lord Hood What, start at this! when sixty years have spread Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the worl so long in vain? - John Dryden One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. - Pablo Picasso 70th I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road. - Mark Twain, at his seventieth birthday dinner, in 1905, as quoted in Saving Your Brain, by Jeff Victoroff On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out green, wild, and beautiful. - The Consolations of Age, translated from the German of Zschokke's autobiography The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties. - Arthur Schopenhauer Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!' - Eleanor Roosevelt To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 80th Oh, to be seventy again. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., upon seeing an attractive woman on his 90th birthday Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen - Mark Twain useful-information.info