Aging Quotes - Page 25

• I believe in aging gracefully

  Tatjana Patitz

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  Dave Allen

  Running, Sleep, Giving

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• Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.

  Abram Joseph Ryan

  Life, Art, Years

  Abram Joseph Ryan (1973). “Selected poems of Father Ryan”

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• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  Alan Blinder

  Book, Teaching, Multiple Choice

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• He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

  Mamie Van Doren

  Men, Personality, Dying

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• His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.

  Aaron Elkins

  Teaching, Lectures, Students

  Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart during the night, and in the morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.

  Mark S. Fowler

  Morning, Heart, Night

  "Required Reading; Sickbedside Monitor". www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• One must take what comes, with laughter.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Laughter, Personality

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• Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

  Scott Simon

  Intelligent, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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• The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

  Arnold Ross

  Teaching, Men, Taught

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• With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Learning, Personality, Rivalry

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• Your world is as big as you make it.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Learning, World, Bigs

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• While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

  Jim Toomey

  Cute, Beautiful, Ugly

  Jim Toomey (1999). “Poodle The Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection”, p.4, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Regret, Blood, Years

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• So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

  Joseph Hergesheimer

  Long, Growing, Growing Old

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• The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Hair, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.103, Routledge

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• In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Honesty, Years, Youth

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• Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Steps, Life Is, Stains

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• After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Freedom, Grateful

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• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Women, Memorable, Elderly

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• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Memories, Lying, Learning

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• One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Marriage, Retirement, Wife

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

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Dream, Retirement

  George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, p.216, The Floating Press

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• When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

  Samuel Ullman

  Ice, Long, Snow

  "Inspired Economics" by Margaret Mason, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 1990.

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• My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Missing, Singing

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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