Aging Quotes - Page 27

• How old are you? 'I'm four and a half!' You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.

  George Carlin

  Keys, Half, Four

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• You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.

  George Carlin

  Numbers, Teens, Next

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• But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?

  George Carlin

  Fun, Sound, Milk

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• But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Waiting

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• So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.

  George Carlin

  Turns

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• You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!

  George Carlin

  Speed, Wednesday, Built

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• We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.

  Dave Allen

  Running, Sleep, Giving

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• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  Alan Blinder

  Book, Teaching, Multiple Choice

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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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• One must take what comes, with laughter.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Laughter, Personality

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• Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

  Scott Simon

  Intelligent, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Learning, Personality, Rivalry

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• Your world is as big as you make it.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Learning, World, Bigs

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

  Joseph Hergesheimer

  Long, Growing, Growing Old

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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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• 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 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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• My biggest sorrow, when looking back on my youth, is how much of it I somehow missed. Now, looking at my life today, I don't want to make the same mistake. I don't want to miss this. As Bonnie Raitt sang like she was singing it for all of us, "Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste."

  Marianne Williamson

  Mistake, Missing, Singing

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.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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• 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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• How can I appreciate light from an aging
  sun shining through new configurations neither pine
  nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing
  fragrances from the spires, the spicules
  of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?

  Pattiann Rogers

  Light, Appreciate, Shining

  Pattiann Rogers (1994). “Firekeeper: new & selected poems”

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