Well, there's no help for it. Ageing seems to be the only available way to live a long time.

-Auber, Daniel-Fran c° ois-Esprit
Attributed, when a friend lamented that they were both getting older. Quoted in Clifton Fadiman The Faber Book of  Anecdotes (1985).

And theL Godsaid,It isnot good thatthemanshould be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 2:18.

Why art thou cast down,O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 42:5.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 46:1^2.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the L, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The L is thy keeper: the L is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moonby night.The L shall preservetheefromallevil: he shall preserve thy soul. The L shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORDPsalms121:1^8.

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 4:9^10.

Thirdly, It was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity. Into which holy estate these two persons present come now to be joined.

-Book of Common Prayer
Solemnization of Marriage, Exhortation.

O put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man: for there is no help in them.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm146:2.

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest mayalso be the gentlest.

-Dobzhansky,Theodosius G
  Mankind Evolving.

   Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.

-Drayton, Michael
  Idea, sonnet 61.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.

-Edward VIII
  Radio broadcast to the nation,11 Dec, following his abdication to marry Wallis Simpson.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

-Etherege, Sir George
  The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 2, sc.2.

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

-Etherege, Sir George
  Letter to Mr Poley,12  Jan.

'O! help me heaven,'she prayed,'to be decorative and to do right!'

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  The Flower Beneath the Foot, ch.2.

I do not believe in Belief† Lord I disbelieveöhelp thou my unbelief.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'.

Nobody can't do nothing never at all for Irelandöyou can't help people against their will; that's what it comes toölet it go, let it go.

-Freeman, Edward Augustus
  Letter to Edith Thompson, 29  Jan.

England is a great and powerful nation, foremost in human progress, enemy to despotism, the only safe refuge for the exile, friend of the oppressed. If ever England should be so circumstanced as to require the help of anyally, cursed be the Italian who would not step forward with me in her defence.

-Garibaldi, Giuseppe
  Letter,12  Apr.

   We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them helpöbecause the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

-Gellhorn, Martha Ellis
  On the Vietnamese. The Face of War (rev edn),'The War in Vietnamö Vietnam  Again,1986'.

   Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone: in another's trouble, in your own.

-Gordon, Adam Lindsay
KINDNESSCOURAGE1866  'Ye Wearie Wayfarer: Hys Ballad. In Eight Fyttes', in Bell's Life in Victoria, Nov1866, collected in Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867).

If a chap seems bent on cheatin' himself, I like to be neighbourly and help him to do it.

-Hales, Stephen
  The Clockmaker (second series),'A Cure for Smuggling'.