Age Quotes - Page 11

• Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

  Muhammad Ali

  Birthday, Uplifting, Greatness

  Twitter post from May 16, 2009

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• There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

  Richard Armour

  Elderly, Firsts, Aging

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• Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

  Edmund Wilson

  Aging, Closing

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• "Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been.

  Tom Peters

  America, Aging, Has Beens

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• If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Fun, Grandma, Grandmother

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, Tired

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cute, Time, Years

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• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

  William Hazlitt

  Birthday, Time, Youth

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• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Strength, Disappointment, Triumph

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• We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

  Charles Lamb

  Hair, Long, Spirit

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• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

  Harrison Ford

  Birthday, Fun, Book

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• I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Ethnicity, Laughing

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• Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Writing, Dancing

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• If youth knew; if age could.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Youth, Aging

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• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

  Graham Greene

  Pregnancy, Curiosity, Morality

  Graham Greene (2011). “A Sort Of Life”, p.98, Random House

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• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

  Helen Keller

  Women, Memorable, Democracy

  Helen Keller (2013). “Optimism: An Essay”, p.19, The Floating Press

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

  "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Grateful, Lynching

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• By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Witty, Elderly

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• Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the person we were talking to when we were little. It’s the body that is changing around that ageless center.

  David Lynch

  Talking, Body, Littles

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• The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

  Joseph Joubert

  Lamps, Evening

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.75

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• Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.

  Rick Warren

  Advice, Risk, Nothing To Lose

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 11, 2013

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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