Getting Old Quotes - Page 3

• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

  Tom Wilson

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Wisdom

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• Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Happy Birthday, Getting Older, Age

  "Why brands side-line the over-50s at their peril" by Crispin Reed, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

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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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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Blow

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Birthday, Women, Thinking

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• You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

  Will Rogers

  Leaks, Funny Age, Funny Aging

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Motorcycle

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Hair, Years

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• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Believe, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

  George Burns

  Love, Mean, Long

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• It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Birthday, Getting Older

  "Mark Twain's Letters".

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Getting Older, Age, Fascination

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• The great thing about getting older is living life.

  Jon Hamm

  Live Life, Getting Older, Great Things

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Congratulations, Age

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• The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

  Carol Grace

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Bonus

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  The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

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• As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

  Ross Macdonald

  Men, Getting Older, Likes

  Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Zebra-Striped Hearse”, p.9, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Old age is no place for sissies.

  Bette Davis

  Life, Cute, Memorable

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• You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

  Hy Gardner

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hurt

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