Aging Quotes - Page 5

• In youth we learn; in age we understand.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Life, Happy Birthday, Wisdom

  "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1893.

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• A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

  Lord Byron

  School, Men, Two

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• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  Albert Camus

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

  Emily Carr

  Bored, Twenties, Eternal Love

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.199, D & M Publishers

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• The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

  Willa Cather

  Communication, Teaching, Age

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.749, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Age, Fifty

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• I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, People, Age

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• Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Fear, Women

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• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Funny Relationship, Hair

  Journals

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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  Jules Feiffer

  Break Up, Humorous, Kids

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• I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Good Morning, Have A Good Day

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• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Age, Body, Fifty

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• No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Life, Time

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• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

  Agatha Christie

  Turning 50, Inspirational Birthday, 50th Birthday

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• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Funny Life, Mistake

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• No man is ever old enough to know better.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Men, Age, 30th Birthday

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• Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Retirement, Worry, People

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• In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Hair, Years

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• Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Funny Relationship, Age, Vices

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• Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

  Bill Vaughan

  Motivational, Christmas, New Year

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• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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