Aging Quotes - Page 16

• 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.

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

  Jean Paul

  Funny, Dream, Morning

  13 Copy quote

• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older

  76 Copy quote

• Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.

  William Devane

  Faces, Destroying, Amount

  8 Copy quote

• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

  Leon Edel

  Death, House, Mind

  11 Copy quote

• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  60 Copy quote

• After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

  Bette Midler

  Funny Birthday, Mind, Age

  66 Copy quote

• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Retirement, Age, Ears

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

  Carl Sandburg

  Age, World, Candid

  87 Copy quote

• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Birthday, Time

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  99 Copy quote

• The spirit should never grow old.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wrinkles, 50th Birthday, Age

  17 Copy quote

• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Mind

  25 Copy quote

• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

  24 Copy quote

• Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Old People, Young And Old

  "A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Birthday, Marriage, Uplifting

  17 Copy quote

• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  881 Copy quote

• Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Birthday, Childhood

  7 Copy quote

• You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Years, Age, Growing

  "Earthly Paradise: Colette's Autobiography Drawn from the Writings of Her Life". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1966.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gray hair is God's graffiti.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humor

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

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

  Graham Greene

  Pregnancy, Curiosity, Age

  Graham Greene (2011). “A Sort Of Life”, p.98, Random House

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Time, Native American, Hypocrite

  27 Copy quote

• As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Time, Hero, Age

  "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 13, 1950.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Age, like distance lends a double charm.

  Oliver Herford

  Time, Distance, Age

  14 Copy quote

• Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

  Kin Hubbard

  Humorous, Maturity, Boys

  12 Copy quote