Aging Quotes - Page 11

• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

  Harrison Ford

  Birthday, Fun, Book

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• Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

  August Strindberg

  Nice, Interesting, Growing

  August Strindberg (1962). “Plays”

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• Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Age, Old Age

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• I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Hate, Men, He Man

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• Aging will create the music of the coming century.

  Betty Friedan

  Century

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• It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

  Theophile Gautier

  May, Silver, Monet

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• Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Challenges, Responsible

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• At sixty-three years of age, less a quarter, one still has plans.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Years, Age, Three

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• Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Age, Poet

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• As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Thinking, Sometimes

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• I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.

  Francesco Clemente

  Self, Age, Portraits

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• As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Perfect, Events

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• Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

  Egon Friedell

  Artist, Long, Age

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• Be kind to an old man.

  Walter Cronkite

  Men, Be Kind, Old Man

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• Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Laughter, Age, Too Much

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• About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

  Stephen Leacock

  Age, Good Things, Old Age

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• There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

  Richard Armour

  Elderly, Age, Firsts

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• Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

  Edmund Wilson

  Age, Closing

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• "Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been.

  Tom Peters

  America, Age, Has Beens

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• When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

  Barbara Cartland

  Past, Age, Fifty

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• When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.

  Andy Rooney

  Age, Used, Be Careful

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• Life is long if it is full.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Age, Life Is

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

  Charles Lamb

  Age, Grows

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Age

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