Old Age Quotes

• 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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• Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Time, Goal

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• When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Birthday, Marriage

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• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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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 not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Strength, Disappointment, Age

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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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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• No man loves life like him that's growing old.

  Sophocles

  Love Life, Men, Age

  Sophocles (2007). “Dramas of Sophocles”, p.334, Wildside Press LLC

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

  Claude Pepper

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• You are never too old to become younger!

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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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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• Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Aging, Old People

  "A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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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 is not old as long as he is seeking something.

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Travel, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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• My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

  Roy Acuff

  Health, Age, Aging

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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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• Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.

  J. Norman Collie

  Grandmother, Men, Grandchildren

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• Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

  Tryon Edwards

  Health, Men, Years

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.58, Ravenio Books

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• There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

  Carol Grace

  Age, Aging

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