Aging Quotes - Page 7

• The trick is growing up without growing old.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  Maggie Kuhn

  Funny, Goal, Age

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• In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Years, Age, Desire

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.102, BookBaby

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• I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

  George Burns

  Age, Taught, Elders

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• When I dream, I am ageless.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Dream, Ageless

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• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Wisdom, Survival

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• The old are in a second childhood.

  Aristophanes

  Childhood

  Aristophanes, Peter Meineck (1998). “Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds”, p.416, Hackett Publishing

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• Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

  Augustus

  Men, Young, Old Man

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• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Generations, Nonsense, Young

  Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)

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• It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Night, Hair, Giving

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• There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Giving, Age, One Thing

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• Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Time, Goal

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Forever

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• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  Edmund Burke

  Time, Arrogance Of Youth, Age

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

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• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  Lord Byron

  Time, Age, Twenties

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• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Time, Sorrow

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• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Time, Fighting, Men

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• Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

  Charles Dickens

  Regret, Hair, Age

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.183, Booklassic

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• The surest sign of age is loneliness.

  Annie Dillard

  Time, Loneliness, Age

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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• 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

  Martha Graham

  Acceptance, Maturity, Years

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• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  E. W. Howe

  Life, Positive, Laughter

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• My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

  Peggy Noonan

  Religious, Marijuana, Choices

  Peggy Noonan (1995). “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, Adams Media Corp

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Birthday, Women, Thinking

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• As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Time, Silly, Age

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld, 1655.

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