Age Quotes - Page 16

• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Strong Women, Time, Uncontrollable Urge

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Birthday, Art, Lost Youth

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• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday, Drinking, Wine

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• Life is long if it is full.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Aging, Life Is

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

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

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• One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Funny, Nice, Humorous

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

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  When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Birthday, Baseball

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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

  Josh Billings

  Stay Strong, Home, Thinking

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• My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.

  R. Tripp Evans

  Birthday, Mother, Lying

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• Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Religion, Doctrine

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• I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Saving, Happy Day

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• Age merely shows what children we remain.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Literature, Shows

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

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• I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

  Rose Kennedy

  Wine, Aging, Wells

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• If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Wrinkles, Feet, Giving

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• I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.

  Charles Lamb

  Aging, Grows

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• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

  Andre Maurois

  Time, True Evil, White Hair

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

  J. B. Priestley

  Respect, Youth, Aging

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• As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

  Robert Quillen

  Funny, Anecdotes, Body

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• Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

  "The Works of George Santayana".

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• Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Years, Desire

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [283]

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• Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Forever, Eulogy

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Time, Women

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

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