Aging Quotes - Page 10

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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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, Age, True You

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• Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

  George Burns

  Funny, Cute, Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• When I was your age, television was called books.

  William Goldman

  Book, Age, Television

  William Goldman (1995). “William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

  George Sand

  Different, Old Woman

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• So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

  Epicurus

  Long, Age, Doe

  Letter to Menoeceus

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• Aging only happens to people who lose their lust for getting better and disconnect from their natural base of curiosity.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Lust, Curiosity

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.51, Jaico Publishing House

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• Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

  Miriam Makeba

  Funny, Age, Old People

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• Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

  Billie Burke

  Funny, Humor, Cheesy

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• A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Talking, Age

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

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  I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

  Lauren Bacall

  Love, Beauty, Memorable

  Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London), 2 Mar. 1988

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• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Women

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• Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Congratulations, Age

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• I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Motivational, Creative, Age

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• I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

  Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

  Sports, Hunting, Age

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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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• He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

  Plato

  Optimism, Age, Pressure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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  Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspiring, Music, Retirement

  1968 Quoted in the Observer, 21 Apr.

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• People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

  Russell Baker

  Justice, People, Age

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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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• There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Age, Sides

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Hate, Heart

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