Age Quotes - Page 7

• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Birthday, Memories

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

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Birthday, Friends

  1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

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• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Time, Children

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• Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Morning, Believe

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• For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, Three, Bent

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• If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tree, Body, Mature

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• Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Slow Down, Slowing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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• After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Inspirational, Years, Numbers

  "Cynthia Ozick, The Art of Fiction No. 95". Interview with Tom Teicholz, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1987.

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• I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.

  Sara Gilbert

  Pain, Grief, Love Is

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• If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

  Julie Chen

  Personality, Trying, Misery

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• One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

  J. B. Priestley

  Delight, Youth, Aging

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• For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away.

  Thomas Tusser

  Years, Shining, Fetch

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• Oh, to be seventy again!

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

  "Ego 3". Book by James Agate, 1938.

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• The last birthday that's any good is 23.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Lasts

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• Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

  Robert Breault

  Years, Use, Passing

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• At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

  Robert Breault

  Memories, Bittersweet, Plans

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• Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

  Alexander Pope

  Years, Funeral, Clear

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.168

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• [May 1958, on playing Macbeth at age 30 and age 48] When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

  Laurence Olivier

  Character, Men, Theatre

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

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• Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

  Robert Breault

  Beautiful, Clever, Wish

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• It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Hair, Rude

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• They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.

  Rick Majerus

  Years, Hey, Economy

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• You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.

  Lillian Gish

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Quoted in Abby Adams, An Uncommon Scold (1989)

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• In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

  Rowan Williams

  Spiritual, Culture, Might

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.243, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cute, Men, Long

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