Age Quotes - Page 10

• I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspiration, Men, Dancing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

  Mike Tyson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

  Phyllis Diller

  How You Feel, Aging, 60th Birthday

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• Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

  Gerald Brenan

  Giving, Aging, Old People

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Maturity, Perfect, Silly Person

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Morning, Silly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

  Lynn Johnston

  Happiness, Matter, Looks

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• I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

  Frances Lear

  Believe, Nursing, Rehabilitation

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• I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

  Eddie Murphy

  Fixing, Broke

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• My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disease, Asthma, Five

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.245

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• This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Wine, Years

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• When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

  Prue Leith

  Sex, Two, Important

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• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

  Sophocles

  Love Life, Men, Growing

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

  Austin O'Malley

  Real, Medicine, Credit

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• It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Wine, Abby, Firsts

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• Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Intelligent, Evil, Youth

  Leonardo Da Vinci “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Lulu.com

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• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Birth, Sickness

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• I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Getting Older, Goes On, Want

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• As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Wisdom, Should

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.369

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• Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage,
  Till pitying Nature signs the last release,
  And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lasts, Lag, Veteran

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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• Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Quality, Useless

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Honored, Knows

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.76

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• The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Men, Enthusiasm, Infancy

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• Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Laughter, Too Much, Aging

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