Getting Old Quotes - Page 4

• You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  Mark Twain

  Good Life, Age, Looks

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• Live your life and forget your age.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Birthday, Inspiring

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Funny, Birthday, Health

  Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

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  You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  George Burns

  Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

  George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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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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• Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

  Elvis Presley

  Funny, Time, Thinking

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• All diseases run into one, old age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Funny Relationship, Hair

  Journals

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

  Josh Billings

  Fall, Fruit Juice, Squash

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• There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.

  Jennie Runk

  Hatred, Being Different, Body Types

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• Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

  Dawn French

  Worry, Getting Older

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• It's the only real advantage to getting older. You get to say what you mean and stop apologizing.

  Jill Davis

  Life, Real, Mean

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• The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Evil, Worst

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• My message is "Getting older is inevitable. Aging and deterioration are optional."

  Christiane Northrup

  Getting Older, Deterioration, Messages

  "Orange Is the New Black Star Alysia Reiner: Channeling Compassion Into Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!

  Chadwick Boseman

  Being Thankful, Advice, Getting Older

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let's learn to make a huge contribution to life.

  Louise Hay

  Giving Up, Dying, Contribution

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• The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

  Greg Behrendt

  Getting Older, Eccentric, Cool Things

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• You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

  Alan King

  Birthday, People, Looks

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• Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Youth, Understood

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• People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

  Paul Simon

  Inspirational, People, Feels

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