Age Quotes - Page 12

• I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

  Susan Sarandon

  Issues, Looks, Aging

  "Susan Sarandon Named L'Oreal Paris Spokeswoman" by Kathryn Romeyn, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 8, 2016.

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• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Exercise, Up Early

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Dream, Morning

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  Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Birthday, Friday

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• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Real, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Birthday, Time, Years

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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• Youth has no age.

  Pablo Picasso

  Birthday, Time, Youth

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Being Yourself, Desire

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• Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Adults

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Birthday, Time, Different

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

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• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Time, Elderly

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

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• Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

  John Wagner

  Funny, Positive Thinking, Getting Older

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• It's never too late to have a fling
  For autumn is just as nice as spring
  And it's never too late to fall in love.

  Sandy Wilson

  Falling In Love, Spring, Nice

  It's Never too Late to Fall in Love (1953 song)

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine

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• Age considers; youth ventures.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Venture, Youth

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Leaves Of Grass, Literature

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• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Life, Motivational, Happy Birthday

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

  Confucius

  Believe, Aging, True You

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Reality, World

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.7, Heinemann

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• The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  ""Even now I have to pinch myself we are together": Bruce Forsyth on 30 years of wedded bliss". www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Creativity

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• There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

  Henry Ford

  Book, Old Friends, Three

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