Aging Quotes - Page 18

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

  Jean Rhys

  Age, Jerk, Succession

  Jean Rhys (1975). “My Day: Three Pieces”

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• The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Teaching, Math, Nursing

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• You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.

  Robert Breault

  Tired, Long, Age

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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Time, Fear, Long

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In a dream you are never eighty.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Age, Youth

  "Old" l. 18 (1962)

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• There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.

  Helen Rowland

  People, Age, Watches

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• A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Women, Hockey, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  Aristotle

  Graduation, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

  Saint Augustine

  Funny, Witty, Philosophical

  Confessions bk. 8, ch. 7 (397 - 398)

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• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Taken, Greatness, Want

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Memories, Believe, Memorable

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

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  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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• To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Birthday, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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• Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Men, Old Things

  Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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 don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

  Phyllis Diller

  Age, How You Feel, 60th Birthday

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• I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

  Tina Turner

  Giving, Age, Never Give In

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

  William Wordsworth

  I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Birthday, Art, Lost Youth

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• THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN'S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don't run for a bus - there'll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit - a nectarine - even a rotten plum is good.

  Mel Brooks

  Running, Italian, Men

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• It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Appreciation, Sadness, Different

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