Aging Quotes - Page 24

• You're never too old to be young, and never too young to be old.

  Michael Rennie

  Young, Be Young

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• In Italy, age is an asset.

  Isa Miranda

  Age, Assets

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• I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.

  Georges Guetary

  Feelings, Enough, Young

  "Fictional character: Henri Baurel". "An American in Paris", 1951.

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• He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

  Dennis Price

  Men, Age, Twenties

  "Fictional character: Louis Mazzini". "Kind Hearts and Coronets", www.imdb.com. 1949.

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• Even melon grown in shade will ripen in the end.

  Roland Winters

  Shade, Ends, Melons

  "Fictional character: Charlie Chan". "Docks of New Orleans", www.imdb.com. 1948.

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• I guess one gets the face one deserves.

  Ina Claire

  Faces, Deserve

  "Fictional character: Swana". "Ninotchka", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

  H. B. Warner

  Age, Limits

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• I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.

  Walter Huston

  Beer, People, Worry

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• Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.

  Walter Huston

  Mean, Helpful

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• Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around you were dazzled by impressions, emotions, and tended to miss the finer points. In middle age you have the equipment to see the subtleties you missed before and you savor it more slowly.

  Eda LeShan

  Book, Missing, Age

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• Success can only be measured in terms of distance traveled.

  Mavis Gallant

  Distance, Term, Traveled

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Age, Youth, Compromise

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.158, Library of America

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• Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Eye, Mirrors, Departed

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.332

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• The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted.

  Linda Martin

  Thinking, Faces

  Linda Martin, Kerry Segrave (1986). “Women in Comedy”

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• I think I've always been a follow-the-leader with my career, or maybe waiting for things to happen. Now I'm like, I'm OK-I know the direction, whoever's on board can go with me.

  Robin Wright

  Thinking, Careers, Leader

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• I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Stars, Night, Lakes

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• Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.

  George Carlin

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

  George Carlin

  Keys, Half, Four

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• You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Teens, Next

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• But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

  George Carlin

  Fun, Sound, Milk

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• You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

  George Carlin

  Dream, Gone, Pushing

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• But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Waiting

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• So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

  George Carlin

  Turns

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• You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

  George Carlin

  Speed, Wednesday, Built

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• May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

  George Carlin

  Healthy, Half, May

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