Youth And Old Age Quotes - Page 3

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

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Wisdom, Age

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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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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Regret, Grief

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• A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Birthday, Men, Feelings

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• I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

  Sheila Kaye-Smith

  Age, Done, Littles

  Sheila Kaye-Smith (1930). “Shepherds in Sackcloth”

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• Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

  Dorothy Parker

  Birthday, Age, May

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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• Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, May

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

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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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• 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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• 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 would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

  H. H. Asquith

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Retirement

  In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

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• We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Funny, Retirement, Stars

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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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• 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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• 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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• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

  John Adams

  Motivational, Horse, Exercise

  "Presidential Proverbs: Quotes From U.S. Presidents Past, Present, and Future" by Kevin Daum, www.inc.com. November 09, 2016.

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• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Time, Elderly

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

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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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• Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

  Sam Ewing

  Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

  Dave Barry

  Cute, Birthday, Teenage

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• At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

  H. H. Asquith

  Birthday, Getting Older, Age

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• The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Age, Excess, Waste

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.51

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• Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Golf, Age

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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• Live your life and forget your age.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Birthday, Inspiring

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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