Aging Quotes - Page 8

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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• Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Feminist, Feminism

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Zombie, Age

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• This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Funny, Women, Memorable

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• Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Funny, Motivational, Mean

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

  Robert Quillen

  Hurt, Giving Up, Feel Better

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• Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

  Shelley Winters

  Age, Sixty, Respectability

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• As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

  Joseph Campbell

  White, Holy Places, Faces

  Irishry (1913) "Old Woman"

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• Why do people write books that say it's better to be older than to be younger? It's not better. Even if you have all your marbles, you're constantly reaching for the name of the person you met the day before yesterday.

  Nora Ephron

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Nora Ephron Dies at 71; Writer and Filmmaker With a Genius for Humor" by Charles Mcgrath, www.nytimes.com. June 26, 2012.

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• The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

  Robert Jordan

  Memories, Long, Leaving

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Funny, Yoga, Exercise

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

  Joan Rivers

  Heart, Age, Funny Valentine

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• Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Hours, Finest, Ends

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• If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

  Epictetus

  Ifs

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  We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

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• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

  Doris Day

  Birthday, Women, Memorable

  Quoted in A E Hotchner Doris Day (1978).

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

  Robert Browning

  Time, Men, Years

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.174

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• At my age flowers scare me.

  George Burns

  Funny, Birthday, Flower

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Age, Forget, Graves

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Naps, Age

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• I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  Barbara Hershey

  People, Reactions, Not Afraid

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