Inspirational Age Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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  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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• The key to successful aging is...to pay as little attention to it as possible.

  Judith Regan

  Positive Thinking, Successful, Law Of Attraction

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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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• You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

  Bonnie Prudden

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

  Bob Hope

  Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational

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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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• Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Moshe Arens

  Life, Learning, Mind

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• The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

  Harrison Ford

  Birthday, Fun, Book

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

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• I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

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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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• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Beauty

  "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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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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• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Time, Positive Thinking

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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• Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Congratulations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Forever, Eulogy

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• Old age is no place for sissies.

  Bette Davis

  Life, Cute, Memorable

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• Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Age, Important

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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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• Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

  Clarence Day

  Funny, Character, Wrinkles

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