Age Quotes

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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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• Gray hair is God's graffiti.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humor

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

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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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• I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

  Maya Angelou

  Morning, Blessed, Yesterday

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  We turn not older with years but newer every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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• A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Men, Getting Older

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• Age is information failure. The body loses fluency.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Body, Information, Fluency

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Stone Gods”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

  Joan Collins

  Funny, Birthday, Wine

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• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Time, Party

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

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Birthday, Leadership

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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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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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• Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

  Jane Elliott

  30th Birthday, Valuable, Determine

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• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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• Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

  James A. Garfield

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

  Homer

  Men, Mind, Looks

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• I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.

  Hugh Hefner

  Believe, Numbers, Healthy

  "Hugh Hefner Reflects on Life at 80". www.foxnews.com. April 8, 2006.

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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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• The trick is growing up without growing old.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

  Luis Bunuel

  Funny, Cheese Sandwiches, 50th Birthday

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Friends, Years

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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