Aging Quotes - Page 21

• May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!

  George Carlin

  Healthy, Half, May

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• He's the type of man who will end up dying in his own arms.

  Mamie Van Doren

  Men, Personality, Dying

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• The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

  Arnold Ross

  Teaching, Men, Taught

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• Your world is as big as you make it.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Learning, World, Bigs

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• So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

  Joseph Hergesheimer

  Long, Growing, Growing Old

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• In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Honesty, Years, Youth

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• Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

  Lillian Gordy Carter

  Women, Memorable, Elderly

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Dream, Retirement

  George Bernard Shaw (2009). “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, p.216, The Floating Press

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• For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Moving, Destiny

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• Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

  Jane Fonda

  Women, Memorable, Wrinkles

  "Jane's wrinkled but Fonda herself now". "The Sydney Morning Herald" Newspaper, December 22, 1985.

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• I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

  Karen Lewis

  Self Esteem, Suggestions, Helpful

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• The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is a feeling of tenderness so still and deep and warm that it gilds every grass blade and blesses every fly. It includes the ones who have a claim on it, and a great deal else besides. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Women, Eye

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• His students were hardly in a position to tell him when he was getting windy, and he had recently noticed, as most professors did after a while, that his lectures mysteriously seemed to be getting longer with time.

  Aaron Elkins

  Teaching, Lectures, Students

  Aaron Elkins (2014). “Dead Men's Hearts”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart during the night, and in the morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.

  Mark S. Fowler

  Morning, Heart, Night

  "Required Reading; Sickbedside Monitor". www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Learning, Personality, Rivalry

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• While "cute" is hopelessly anchored to the Teletubby ideal, "ugly" is free to take infinite varieties. In this way, ugly is beautiful.

  Jim Toomey

  Cute, Beautiful, Ugly

  Jim Toomey (1999). “Poodle The Other White Meat: A Sherman's Lagoon Collection”, p.4, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever, but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Regret, Blood, Years

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• The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Hair, People

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.103, Routledge

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• Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Steps, Life Is, Stains

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• After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an obsession. For years, I've had to take houses big enough to hold all these bibelots. I am almost grateful to him."

  Anne Sebba

  Mother, Freedom, Grateful

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• The advances of biology during the past 20 years have been breathtaking, particularly in cracking the mystery of heredity. Nevertheless, the greatest and most difficult problems still lie ahead. The discoveries of the 1970's about the chemical roots of memory in nerve cells or the basis of learning, about the complex behavior of man and animals, the nature of growth, development, disease and aging will be at least as fundamental and spectacular as those of the recent past.

  H. Bentley Glass

  Memories, Lying, Learning

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• One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

  Groucho Marx

  Marriage, Retirement, Wife

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

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• When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

  Samuel Ullman

  Ice, Long, Snow

  "Inspired Economics" by Margaret Mason, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 1990.

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• When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

  Dalai Lama

  Trust, Buddhist, Growing Up

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• Many many people find themselves wondering in their 40s and 50s, is this all there is?

  Neale Donald Walsch

  People, Wonder

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