About The Only Thing That Comes To Us Without Effort Is Old Age.
- Gloria Pitzer
As We Grow Old?The Beauty Steals Inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The First Half Of Life Consists Of The Capacity To Enjoy Without The The Chance; The Last Half Consists Of The Chance Without The Capacity.
- Mark Twain
I Am An Old Man, But In Many Senses A Very Young Man. And This Is What I Want You To Be, Young, Young All Your Life.
- Pablo Casals
I’m Very Pleased With Each Advancing Year. It Stems Back To When I Was Forty. I Was A Bit Upset About Reaching That Milestone, But An Older Friend Consoled Me. ‘Don’t Complain About Growing Old – Many, Many People Do Not Have That Privilege.’
- Earl Warren
Only When One Has Lost All Curiosity About The Future Has One Reached The Age To Write An Autobiography.
- Evelyn Waugh
The Surprising Thing About Young Fools Is How Many Survive To Become Old Fools.
- Doug Larson
There Is No Old Age. There Is, As There Always Was, Just You.
- Carol Matthau
I Never Feel Age…If You Have Creative Work, You Don’t Have Age Or Time.
- Louise Nevelson
People Who Say You’re Just As Old As You Feel Are All Wrong, Fortunately.
- Russell Baker
Old Age Is Like Everything Else. To Make A Success Of It, You’ve Got To Start Young.
- Fred Astaire
Where Is The Path To Grown-Up Land? How Do I Get There? Or Will I Just Get Old, Not Understanding That I’m No Longer Young?
- Tish Grier
I Am Not Young Enough To Know Everything.
- Oscar Wilde
It Is Kind Of Strange Watching Your Personal History Become Costume.
- gadgetgirl
The Heads Of Strong Old Age Are Beautiful Beyond All Grace Of Youth.
- Robinson Jeffers
To Be 70 Years Young Is Sometimes Far More Cheerful And Hopeful Than To Be 40 Years Old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
It Is A Sadness Of Growing Older That We Lose Our Ardent Appreciation Of What Is New And Different And Difficult.
- Elizabeth Aston
When You Have Loved As She Has Loved, You Grow Old Beautifully.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Age To Me Means Nothing. I Can’t Get Old; I’m Working. I Was Old When I Was Twenty-One And Out Of Work. As Long As You’re Working, You Stay Young. When I’m In Front Of An Audience, All That Love And Vitality Sweeps Over Me And I Forget My Age.
- George Burns
With Age Come The Inner, The Higher Life. Who Would Be Forever Young, To Dwell Always In Externals?
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sure I’m For Helping The Elderly. I’m Going To Be Old Myself Some Day.
- Lillian Carter
The Denunciation Of The Young Is A Necessary Part Of The Hygiene Of Older People, And Greatly Assists In The Circulation Of Their Blood.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Perhaps One Has To Be Very Old Before One Learns How To Be Amused Rather Than Shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
Middle Age Is When You’ve Met So Many People That Every New Person You Meet Reminds You Of Someone Else.
- Ogden Nash
At Twenty Years Of Age The Will Reigns; At Thirty The Wit; At Forty The Judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Great Secret That All Old People Share Is That You Really Haven’t Changed In 70 Or 80 Years. Your Body Changes, But You Don’t Change At All.
- Doris Lessing
Before You Contradict An Old Man, My Fair Friend, You Should Endeavor To Understand Him.
- George Santayana
The Older I Grow The More I Distrust The Familiar Doctrine That Age Brings Wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
The Old Believe Everything, The Middle-Aged Suspect Everything, And The Young Know Everything.
Aging Is Not ‘Lost Youth’ But A New Stage Of Opportunity And Strength.
- Betty Friedan
Growing Old Is No More Than A Bad Habit Which A Busy Man Has No Time To Form.
- Andre Maurois
Yet Somehow Our Society Must Make It Right And Possible For Old People Not To Fear The Young Or Be Deserted By Them, For The Test Of A Civilization Is In The Way That It Cares For Its Helpless Members.
To Resist The Frigidity Of Old Age One Must Combine The Body, The Mind And The Heart – And To Keep Them In Parallel Vigor One Must Exercise, Study And Love.
- Karl von Bonstetten
The Stream Is As Good As At First; The Little Rubbish It Collects In The Turnings Is Easily Moved Away.
- Jane Austen
Beware Of The Young Doctor And The Old Barber.
Of All The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies In Our Culture, The Assumption That Aging Means Decline And Poor Health Is Probably The Deadliest.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Young Men’s Minds Are Always Changeable, But When An Old Man Is Concerned In A Matter, He Looks Both Before And After.
- Homer
Age Is?Wisdom, If One Has Lived One’s Life Properly.
- Miriam Makeba
To Get Back My Youth I Would Do Anything In The World, Except Take Exercise, Get Up Early, Or Be Respectable.
The Older I Get, The More I Feel Almost Beautiful…
- Sharon Olds
To Keep The Heart Unwrinkled, To Be Hopeful, Kindly, Cheerful, Reverent – That Is To Triumph Over Old Age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To Hold The Same Views At Forty As We Did At Twenty Is To Have Been Stupefied For A Score Of Years, And Take Rank, Not As A Prophet, But As An Unteachable Brat, Well Birched And None The Wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Secret Of Staying Young Is To Live Honestly, Eat Slowly, And Lie About Your Age.
- Lucille Ball
Old Age Is Not So Bad When You Consider The Alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier
At My Age The Bones Are Water In The Morning Until Food Is Given Them.
- Pearl Buck
We Who Are Of Mature Age Seldom Suspect How Unmercifully And Yet With What Insight The Very Young Judge Us.
I’m Having A Glorious Old Age. One Of My Greatest Delights Is That I Have Outlived Most Of My Opposition.
- Maggie Kuhn
To Me, Old Age Is Always 15 Years Older Than I Am.
- Bernard M. Baruch
I Grow More Intense As I Age.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
It Is A Mistake To Regard Age As A Downhill Grade Toward Dissolution. The Reverse Is True. As One Grows Older, One Climbs With Surprising Strides.
- George Sand
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