Aging Quotes - Page 14

• If youth knew; if age could.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Age, Youth

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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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• Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

  Robert Browning

  Age, Youth, Grants

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.147, Wildside Press LLC

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• I grow old, ever learning many things.

  Solon

  Learning, Grows

  Fragment 22

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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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• Age is no guarantee of maturity.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Maturity

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.23, Bethany House

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• I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

  Victor Borge

  Mind, Growing, Used

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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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• Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.

  Billy Casper

  Age, Furniture, Problem

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• Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Self, Growth, Mankind

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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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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• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

  Cyril Connolly

  Revenge, Intelligence, Intellectual

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

  Fanny Burney

  Tired, Erring, Judgment

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.723, Delphi Classics

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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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• Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

  George Burns

  Retirement, Business, Retiring

  George Burns (1986). “Dr. Burns' Prescription for happiness”, G K Hall & Co

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• Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

  Alexander Pope

  Time, Men, Thinking

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• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  J. B. Priestley

  Beauty, Years, 50th Birthday

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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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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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