Ageing Quotes

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Birthday, Time, Age

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

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• These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Believe, Optimistic

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

  George H. W. Bush

  Alternatives, Alright

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• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  Ted Dexter

  Mean, House, Cracks

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• Age isn't important until you run out of it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Running, Important, Age

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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• Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

  Mark Twain

  Getting Older, Complaining, Growing

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• Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

  Dorothy Parker

  Birthday, Age, May

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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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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• Old age is no place for sissies.

  Bette Davis

  Life, Cute, Memorable

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• Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, People

  "From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen – the old masters finding new inspiration" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Yesterday, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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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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• Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

  Jules Renard

  Smile, Wrinkles, Getting Older

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.

  Miranda Hart

  Skins, Eating, Fantastic

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• The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Ideas, Unexpected, Subjects

  "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• I just don't like the idea of having an operation to hold up the ageing process.

  Demi Moore

  Ideas, Process, Operations

  "Demi Moore: I'm a natural woman". www.mirror.co.uk. August 30, 2009.

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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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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• The lack of manpower and infrastructural capacity in our Intermediate and Long-term Care sectors are problems that have been with us for the past 10 years. The demand for rehabilitation services will only increase with a rapidly ageing population. I hope the Ministry will share its roadmap to meet the rising demand for rehabilitation services.

  Low Thia Khiang

  Past, Years, Long

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