Birthdays And Aging Quotes - Page 2

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Robert Frost

Funny, Birthday, Time

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Birthday, Friends

1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 3.

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

George Bernard Shaw

Funny, Happy Birthday, Family

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

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Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir

Funny, Birthday, Women

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

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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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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Happy Birthday, Friends, Years

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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anouk Aimee

Beauty, Real, Elderly

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

Funny, Birthday, Health

Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Pablo Picasso

Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Birthday, Hope, Heart

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

Birthday, Time, Years

The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

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We turn not older with years but newer every day.

Emily Dickinson

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI

Inspirational, Hair, Years

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One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Daniel Handler

Past, Long, Intellectual

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Old age is not for sissies.

Malcolm Forbes

Birthday, Age, Sissy

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May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

Happy Birthday, Music, Funny Birthday

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One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Oscar Wilde

Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Truth

'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

Inspirational, Men, Old Things

Diary in Exile (1959) 8 May 1935

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

Mark Twain

Happy Birthday, Growing Up, 50th Birthday

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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