Getting Older Quotes

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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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• Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

  Mark Twain

  Complaining, Growing, Untimely Death

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• Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, People

  "From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen – the old masters finding new inspiration" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Say what you want about aging,
  it's still the only way to have old friends.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Real Friends, Old Friends

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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 get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Leadership, Positivity, People

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Birthday, Memories

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

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• I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Bible, Witty

  "George Carlin, R.I.P." by David Gibson, www.beliefnet.com. June 2008.

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• Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Life, Age

  "A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

  Pat Benatar

  Life, Laughter, Perfect

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

  Beverly Sills

  Running, Time, Age

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• When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

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• When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

  Aki Kaurismaki

  Ideas, Baths, Energy

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

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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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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

  Lee Marvin

  People, Interesting, Age

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• If you're not getting older, you're dead.

  Tom Petty

  Funny Birthday, Funny Happy Birthday, Humorous Birthday

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 15, 2010.

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• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Age, Surprise, Young

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Retirement

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

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• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Soul

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

  "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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