Age Quotes - Page 15

• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
  [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Long, 50th Birthday

  "De Senectute", 10, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12-17,

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

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

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• Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Time, Stupid, Journey

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• Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

  Christian Dior

  Birthday, Women, Race

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

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• Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Golf, Young

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spring, Sunshine, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.833, Library of America

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• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Courage, Love Yourself

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• Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.

  Pablo Picasso

  Twenties, Might, Matter

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• Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

  John Wagner

  Ice Cream, Cake, Hips

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• Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Historical

  Carl Gustav Jung (1981). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

  Helen Keller

  Men, Tolerance, Brotherhood

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• When the age is in, the wit is out

  William Shakespeare

  Wit

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

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• When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

  George Burns

  Vitality, Aging, Forget

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• Nor age so eat up my invention.

  William Shakespeare

  Invention

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1485, Oxford University Press

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• O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Should, Verge

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• Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Lordship, Smack, Relish

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 1, sc. 2, l. [111]

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• The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Men, Silver, Bark

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• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Moon, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.167, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  "Moving Forward".

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• The older I get, the better I used to be.

  Lee Trevino

  Wine, Golf, Tennis

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• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  Andre Maurois

  Birthday, Time, Hunting

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• There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Years, Gone, Youth

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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