Getting Older Quotes

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  You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  George Burns

  Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

  George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Fascination, Getting High

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• Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, People

  "From Yoko Ono to Leonard Cohen – the old masters finding new inspiration" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

  Mark Twain

  Complaining, Growing, Untimely Death

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• The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Leadership, Positivity, People

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• Say what you want about aging,
  it's still the only way to have old friends.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, Real Friends, Old Friends

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Birthday, Memories

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

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  You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

  George Burns

  Funny, Hilarious, Retirement

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

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• I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

  Pat Benatar

  Life, Laughter, Perfect

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• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Funny Life, Mistake

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they’re cramming for their final exam.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Bible, Witty

  "George Carlin, R.I.P." by David Gibson, www.beliefnet.com. June 2008.

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• When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Inspiring, Dream

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• Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Life, Age

  "A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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

  Beverly Sills

  Running, Time, Age

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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• One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

  Lee Marvin

  People, Interesting, Age

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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Age, Surprise, Young

  "Hugh Hefner: What I've Learned" by Wil S. Hylton, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Soul

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.

  Pablo Picasso

  Golf, Wind, Age

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper (Paris), February 28, 1990.

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• If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

  James A. Garfield

  Love, Life, Motivational

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