Growing Old Quotes - Page 5

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

  George Burns

  Age, Vitality, Aging

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• Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Growing Up, School, Reform

  Ernest Hemingway, Sean Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on Hunting”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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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, Aging

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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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• Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

  Louise Hay

  Positivity, Years, Perfect

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Everyday Positive Thinking: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.94, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

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

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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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• We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Funny, Birthday, Growing Up

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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• Beautiful old people are works of art.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Beautiful, Art, Nursing

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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• Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Age, Growing

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• Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

  James Simpson

  Regret, Age, Growing

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• One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Historical, Age, Growing

  Sebastian Horsley (2016). “Dandy in the Underworld”, p.234, Hachette UK

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• The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong, Passion, Light

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of Time's increasing volume, In plain, round numbers speak. And thus, as in a mirror's Reflection, we were told, With stereotyped impressions, The fact of growing old.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Moving, Reflection, Mirrors

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• The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

  Bob Hope

  Long, Age, Growing

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• Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

  Paul Leautaud

  Jobs, Growing, Aging

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• Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

  John Spence

  Growing Up, Thinking, Appreciate

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• Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Growing Up, Growing, Growing Older

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 13, 1799.

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• One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Age, Duty, Valuable

  "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.

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• If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Men, Sea, Growing

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “Sielanka: A Forest Picture, and Other Stories”

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