Age Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Time, Memories, Bears

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

  Hugo Black

  Funny, Sports, Humor

  Quoted in Think, Feb. 1963

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• Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

  George Burns

  Funny, Humorous, Reality

  George Burns, Hal Goldman (1992). “Wisdom of the 90s”, Perigee Books

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• What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Twenties, Fifty

  "The Educated Citizen". Adlai E. Stevenson's Commencement Address at Princeton University, infoshare1.princeton.edu. March 22, 1954.

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• By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Remember

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Time, Inspiration, Live Life

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• Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Time, Children

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• They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.

  Rick Majerus

  Years, Hey, Economy

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• In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

  Rowan Williams

  Spiritual, Culture, Might

  Rowan Williams (2012). “Faith in the Public Square”, p.243, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Tree, Body, Mature

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• Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Birthday, Gloves

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• Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Fear, Women

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• It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Hair, Rude

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• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

  Edgar Guest

  Men, Three, Bent

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• Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Time, Foxes

  Benjamin Franklin (1963). “The Autobiography, and Other Writings: With Selections from Poor Richard's Almanac and Papers Relating to the Junto”

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• Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

  Arthur Golden

  Girl, Stupid, Silly

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Lust

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

  George Sand

  Funny, Wisdom, Mistake

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• Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

  Richard Steele

  Healthy, Fool, Aging

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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

  Taught, Aging, Elders

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• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

  Jonathan Swift

  Cute, Men, Long

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