Aging Quotes - Page 17

• Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Birthday, Beautiful, Art

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• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

  Graham Greene

  Pregnancy, Curiosity, Age

  Graham Greene (2011). “A Sort Of Life”, p.98, Random House

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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Native American, Hypocrite

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• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Hero, Age

  "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

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• Age, like distance lends a double charm.

  Oliver Herford

  Time, Distance, Age

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• Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

  Kin Hubbard

  Humorous, Maturity, Boys

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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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• We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

  Charles Lamb

  Hair, Long, Age

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• It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

  Tom Lehrer

  Years, Two, Age

  That Was the Year That Was (record album) (1965)

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• 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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• 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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• How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Time, People, Age

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• As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

  Jean Paul

  Birthday, Time, Winter

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• When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Mouths, Speak

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 03, 2016

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• Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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  I want to die young at a ripe old age.

  Ashley Montagu

  Inspirational, Life, Age

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• Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

  George Burns

  Love, Mean, Long

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• You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

  Joan Rivers

  Retirement, Fun, Middle Ages

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• Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

  Gerald Brenan

  Giving, Age, Old People

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• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  Demi Moore

  Lying, Feel Better, Age

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

  E. B. White

  Men, Years, Age

  The Second Tree from the Corner 'A Weekend with the Angels'

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• Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Years, Practice

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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Time, Fear, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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