Aging Quotes - Page 25

• Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Age, Today

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• Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Years, Age

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• At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

  H. H. Asquith

  Birthday, Getting Older, Age

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• Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Birthday, Age, Tonight

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• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  T. S. Eliot

  Birthday, Optimism, Age

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• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

  George Burns

  Senior, Two, People

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• I'm sure that we can handle this situation maturely, just like the responsible adults that we are. Isn't that right, Mr... Poopy Pants?

  Leslie Nielsen

  Adults, Pants, Responsible

  "Fictional character: Lt. Frank Drebin". "The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear", www.imdb.com. June 28, 1991.

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• Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up.

  John Wagner

  Funny, Positive Thinking, Getting Older

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• Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

  George Sweeting

  Attitude, Successful, Discipline

  George Sweeting (2008). “The Joys of Successful Aging: Living Your Days to the Fullest”, p.64, Moody Publishers

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• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

  Sophocles

  Love Life, Men, Age

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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• If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Results, Standards, Young

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.263, Bethany House

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• Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

  James Wood-Mason

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

  John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

  Teaching, Parent

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• Whiners usually play alone.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Learning, Play

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• You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Dog, Teaching, Kind

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• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Time, Age

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• Youth passes like a dream.

  Theocritus

  Dream, Youth

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• You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Men, Eugenics

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• No lie ever reaches old age.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Lying, Age

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• I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

  Greer Garson

  Retirement, Wish, Age

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

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• Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.

  Paul Shepard

  Technology, Broken, Historical

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• At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Body, Life Is

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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