Growing Old Quotes - Page 3

• grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Birthday, Anniversary

  "Rabbi Ben Ezra" l. 1 (1864)

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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• The spirit should never grow old.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wrinkles, 50th Birthday, Age

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• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Birthday, Success, Nursing

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2018

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• Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young but becomes constantly more valuable — regardless of physical capacity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Education

  "Moving Forward".

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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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• 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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• The trick is growing up without growing old.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Life And Love, Twilight

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

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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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• 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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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Humor, Tragedy

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• A man growing old becomes a child again.

  Sophocles

  Children, Men, Age

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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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• Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

  Earl Warren

  People, Age, Complaining

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, p. 43, 1980.

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• It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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• The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

  Helen Hayes

  Funny, Life, Witty

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Maturity, Perfect, Age

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Birthday, Getting Older

  "Mark Twain's Letters".

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• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Age, Mastery

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• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Age, Aging

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.208, Humanix Books

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