Getting Old Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Vanity

  1989 In The Guardian,18 Aug.

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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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• 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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• The older I get, the better I was.

  Van Dyke Parks

  Wine, Golf, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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• If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

  George Burns

  Funny, Birthday, Death

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• The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

  Helen Rowland

  Regret, Women, Opportunity

  A Guide to Men "Improvisations" (1922)

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• We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

  Bernard Baruch

  Funny, Birthday, Growing Up

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• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

  Beverly Sills

  Running, Time, Getting Older

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• Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Age

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  A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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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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• Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

  William Wordsworth

  I Love You, Birthday, Marriage

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• Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Birthday, Happiness, Confidence

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• It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

  Mark Twain

  Summer, Time, June

  Mark Twain (1998). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, May

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

  Dale Carnegie

  Men, People, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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• My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

  Bill Cosby

  Hypocrisy, Getting Older, Age

  "Bill Cosby: 49". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Anniversary, Valentines Day

  Robert Browning, “Rabbi Ben Ezra”

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Solitude, Listening, Age

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• Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Birthday, Positive

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.443, Courier Corporation

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