Aging Quotes - Page 9

• A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Age, Ugly

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• How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

  C. S. Lewis

  Age, Incessant, Old Age

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• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Time, Elderly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Golf, Wind, Getting Older

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper (Paris), February 28, 1990.

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  Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

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

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• Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Forever, Eulogy

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

  Tom Stoppard

  Life, Children, Creativity

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• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.29, St. Martin's Press

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

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• Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Age, Immortal

  "Poor Richard's Almanack".

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• I grow more intense as I age.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Age, Intense, Grows

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• The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

  Hume Cronyn

  Birthday, Important, Age

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• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  Frances Conroy

  Nice, Makeup, People

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• There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Mean, Tolls, Roles

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• You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

  Angie Dickinson

  Oil, Age, Body

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• When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.

  Connie Sellecca

  Fighting, Perfect, Skins

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• The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

  William Devane

  Stopping, Process, Built

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• Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

  Pat Conroy

  Opportunity, Challenges, Population

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• Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

  Jack Valenti

  Chinese, Cinema, Demand

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• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aggravation, Growth, Patterns

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  Warren Beatty

  Motivational, Children, Narcissistic

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• My home State of North Carolina ranks 12th in the United States for increased aging population and, according to a national report, 41st in overall health. According to this same report, individuals aged 50+ are the least healthy.

  Howard Coble

  Home, Healthy, North Carolina

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• I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

  Felicity Kendal

  Thinking, Relax

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• In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Periods, Certain, Cripples

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• I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.

  Fred Willard

  Journey, Thinking, Ideas

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