Aging Quotes - Page 4

• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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• Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mean Girls, Worry, Trying

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• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Time, Party

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• Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, Girl, Cutting

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

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• Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

  William Holden

  Uplifting, Age, Want

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• There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

  Susan Anton

  Birthday, Age, Possibility

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• I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

  James Broughton

  Children, Child Abuse, Ageless

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• I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Believe, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

  Thomas Hardy

  Time, Jobs, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.8199, Delphi Classics

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• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Example, Complaining

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• As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

  Erma Bombeck

  Creativity, School, Creative

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• As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Age, Capacity, Appetite

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.71, BookBaby

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

  Joseph Addison

  Time, Years, Honor

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Philosophical, Men

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• I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.

  Saul Bellow

  Vain, Glad, Havens

  "In Bellow's shadow" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. November 27, 2000.

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• Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Band, Impulse

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fall, People, Faces

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 1: Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Age, Dew

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.106, Ohio University Press

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• To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

  Martin Buber

  Glorious, Ifs

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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

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• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Dying, Faculty

  Samuel Butler (2016). “The Way of All Flesh”, p.28, Samuel Butler

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