Aging Quotes - Page 19

• Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Strength, Disappointment, Age

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Friends, Years

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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• Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Humor, Years

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

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• When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

  Jean Anouilh

  Past, Age, Half

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh ... plays”

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• Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Birthday, Errors, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (1911). “The collected works”

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• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, War, Dying

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• Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

  Leighton Meester

  Thinking, Vanity

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from Jun 28, 2013

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Hair, Age, Tongue

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• Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Death, Years, Finals

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• Don't die until you're dead.

  Billy Connolly

  Dies

  "Dustin Hoffman Delights in San Sebastian" by Pamela Rolfe, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 29, 2012.

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• The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Remember, Happened

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• The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Birthday, Time, Liars

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.179

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• Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

  William Merritt Chase

  Life, Four, If I Could

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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• Old age is no place for sissies.

  Bette Davis

  Life, Cute, Memorable

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• Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

  Fausto Coppi

  Skills, Age, Overcoming

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• I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Age, Transition, Use

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• Age considers; youth ventures.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Age, Venture

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• We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Funny, Retirement, Stars

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Decision, 50th Birthday

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Time, Wrinkles, Mind

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1055, Delphi Classics

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• This Day, whate'er the Fates decree;
  Shall still be kept with Joy by me:
  This Day then, let us not be told,
  That you are sick, and I grown old

  Jonathan Swift

  Fate, Sick, Joy

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems”, p.500

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• Anyone who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Growing Up, Home, Grandparent

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• We'll never be as young as we are tonight.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Travel, Tonight

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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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