Aging Quotes - Page 7

• The trick is growing up without growing old.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• There is only one thing age can give you, and that is wisdom.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Giving, Age, One Thing

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• In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Years, Age, Desire

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.102, BookBaby

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• It just isn't the way you've been told. Let me give you an example: Time makes no sense. It really doesn't apply to me; it doesn't fit. My hair gets thin and I can't stay up all night the way I used to. But I don't change.

  Arthur J. Deikman

  Night, Hair, Giving

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• Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.

  Augustus

  Men, Young, Old Man

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• The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Wisdom, Survival

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• I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

  George Burns

  Age, Taught, Elders

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• When I dream, I am ageless.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Dream, Ageless

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• The old are in a second childhood.

  Aristophanes

  Childhood

  Aristophanes, Peter Meineck (1998). “Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds”, p.416, Hackett Publishing

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• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Generations, Nonsense, Young

  Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)

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• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  Maggie Kuhn

  Funny, Goal, Age

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• Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Time, Goal

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Forever

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Birthday, Women, Thinking

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• Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

  Gloria Steinem

  Women, Feminist, Feminism

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Funny, Motivational, Mean

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Funny, Women, Memorable

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• My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

  Peggy Noonan

  Religious, Marijuana, Choices

  Peggy Noonan (1995). “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”, Adams Media Corp

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• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Birthday, Time, Sorrow

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• 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

  Martha Graham

  Acceptance, Maturity, Years

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• You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  People, Zombie, Age

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• At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Time, Fighting, Men

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• Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Time, Age

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

  Joseph Campbell

  White, Holy Places, Faces

  Irishry (1913) "Old Woman"

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• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Women, Struggle

  In R. E. Drennan Wit's End (1973)

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