Old Age Quotes - Page 6

• It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  "Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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• What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.

  Jean Paul

  Happiness, Joy, Age

  "The Titan: A Romance".

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• Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Names, People, Acting

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• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Retirement, Age, Ears

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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• I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

  Carl Sandburg

  Age, World, Aging

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• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Strong Women, Time, Uncontrollable Urge

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Birthday, Time

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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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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• The trick is growing up without growing old.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Growing Up, Inspiration

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• Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

  Mark Twain

  Hope, Tree, Lord

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

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• You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

  Judith Viorst

  Children, Age, Faces

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  Edith Wharton

  Time, Age, Leaves Of Grass

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• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

  Andre Maurois

  Time, True Evil, White Hair

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• You'll live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Birthday, Witty

  "Fictional character: Pearl". "Interiors", www.imdb.com. 1978.

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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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• As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Character

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• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Regret

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

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

  Carol Grace

  Age, Aging

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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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• How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

  C. S. Lewis

  Age, Aging, Incessant

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

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

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• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Birthday, Time, Age

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

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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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• In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Hair, Years

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