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"Age" is a song written and recorded by Jim Croce and his wife Ingrid. The song was first recorded in 1969 on their self-titled album. Jim Croce would record the song again, this time without Ingrid, for his final album I Got a Name in 1973. Jerry Reed's cover of the song was released as a single in 1980 on his tribute album to Croce, and it peaked at 36 on the Billboard country chart. Content Age is about a change in the narrator’s disposition after an experience over time where he went from having a lot of success to a little because of bad choices. The speaker regrets losing his ideals, which has caused him to be right back where he started from before his success. After losing everything he is working his way back to the top and is using his experience to better himself the second time around. The narrator will be careful climbing to success because "when you're down nobody gives a damn anyway." Covers The Ventures covered Age on their tribute album "The Ventures Play the Jim Croce Songbook" Mike Auldridge recorded it in 1977 on his album Mike Auldridge & 'Old Dog' The Bluegrass Album Band with Tony Rice on lead vocals covered the song on their album Bluegrass Album, Vol. 4 Chart performance

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“When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to aging, not beyond aging, sees another who is aged, he is horrified, humiliated, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to aging, not beyond aging. If I – who am subject to aging, not beyond aging – were to be horrified, humiliated, & disgusted on seeing another person who is aged, that would not be fitting for me.”
— Gautama Buddha, Aṅguttara Nikāya 3:8 as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?”
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Ponkapog Papers (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903), "Leaves From a Notebook", p. 29
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
— André Maurois, The Art of Living (1940), chapter 8, p. 282–83, as translated by James Whitall.
“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.”
— Athenæus, Deipnosophists, XIII. 46.
“Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.”
— Petrarch, To Laura in Death, Sonnet LXXXII.
“The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.”
— William Mountford, p. 439.

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“When an untaught, run-of-the-mill person, himself subject to aging, not beyond aging, sees another who is aged, he is horrified, humiliated, & disgusted, oblivious to himself that he too is subject to aging, not beyond aging. If I – who am subject to aging, not beyond aging – were to be horrified, humiliated, & disgusted on seeing another person who is aged, that would not be fitting for me.”
— Gautama Buddha, Aṅguttara Nikāya 3:8 as translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?”
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Ponkapog Papers (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903), "Leaves From a Notebook", p. 29
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
— André Maurois, The Art of Living (1940), chapter 8, p. 282–83, as translated by James Whitall.
“On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a wine cooler, and said that it was sixteen years old. "It is very small for its age," said Gnathæna.”
— Athenæus, Deipnosophists, XIII. 46.
“Thyself no more deceive, thy youth hath fled.”
— Petrarch, To Laura in Death, Sonnet LXXXII.
“The years of old age are stalls in the cathedral of life in which for aged men to sit and listen and meditate and be patient till the service is over, and in which they may get themselves ready to say "Amen" at the last, with all their hearts and souls and strength.”
— William Mountford, p. 439.

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