Aging Quotes - Page 13

• Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability To Love, Giving, People

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• Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Names, People, Acting

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• The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Regret, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

  Neal Stephenson

  Stupid, Intelligent, Differences

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.283, Spectra

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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, Age, Twenties

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

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• From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

  Sophie Tucker

  Funny, Life, Girl

  In Michael Freedland Sophie (1978) p. 214

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• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  Earl Warren

  Heart, Men, Age

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• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Hair, Getting Older

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• Minds ripen at very different ages.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mind, Age, Different

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• Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

  Edward Young

  Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie

  The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

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• I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

  Ray Bradbury

  Uncles, Crazy, Two

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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• I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship, Too Much, Bread

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• I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Discrimination, Notes

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• The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

  Mitch Albom

  Wise, Children, Men

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• When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I'm twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I'm--you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You're thirty-five. And then you're bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it's decades before you admit it.

  Sara Gruen

  Age, Months, Firsts

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• I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Age, Looks, Corners

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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• I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Song, Kings, Princess

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Childhood, Age

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Beautiful, Strong, Grace

  Robinson Jeffers, “Promise Of Peace”

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• I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiring, Weight Loss, Years

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• The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

  Tim Curry

  Dream, Regret, Maturity

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• With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Funny, Forever, Age

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, People, Age

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Long, Age, Middle

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.102, BookBaby

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• The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

  Mortimer Collins

  Positive Thinking, Mind, Age

  The Village Comedy Vol. 1

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