Age

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Quotes about age

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• "Age imprints more wrinkles on the mind than it does on the face." ~ Montaigne, Essays
• "All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?" ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Leaves From a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers
• "An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard." ~ Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia
• "As we grow old....the beauty turns inward." ~ Emerson, journals
• "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." ~ William Shakespeare, Richard II
• "No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year." ~ Cicero, De senectute
• "Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom." ~ Joseph Joubert, Pensees
• "Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth." ~ W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up
• "Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Over the Teacups
• "Old age is not so fiery as youth, but when once provoked cannot be appeased." ~ Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia
• "Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man." ~ Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile (1959)
• "There are no charms or medicine against old age." ~ Anonymous, The Journal of Negro History, Edited by Carter G. Woodson, Volume 1 Number 1 (1916)
• "To an old man any place that's warm is homeland." ~ Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths
• "We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count." ~ Emerson, journals
• "When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age." ~ Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
• "When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past--and when you're seventy, nearly all of you." ~ Jean Anouilh, Time Remembered
• "I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and I realize it's me." ~ Dave Allen, The Independent (1993)
• "I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over." ~ Woody Allen, The Observer Review]] (1996)
• "A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks." ~ Mortimer Collins, The Unknown Quantity
• "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." ~ Jack Benny, New York Times (1974)
• "If youth only knew; if only age could." ~ Henri Estienne, Les Prémices (1594)
• "Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and having people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name." ~ Phillip Larkin, The Old Fools (1974)
• "There are so few who can grow old with a good grace." ~ Richard Steele, The Spectator (1712)

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• "Age has a good mind and sorry shanks." ~ Pietro Aretino
• "Age is a bad traveling companion." ~ English proverb
• "Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that 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
• "Growing old is no more than a bad habbit which a busy man has no time to form." ~ André Maurois, quoted in The Aging American
• "A man's only as old as the woman he feels." ~ Groucho Marx
• "An old man loved is winter with flowers." ~ German proverb
• I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard
• "Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs." ~ Charles Dickens
• "Times go by: reputation increases, ability declines." ~ Dag Hammarskjold
• "To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am." ~ Bernard Baruch
• "When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch." ~ R. C. Sherriff
• "When you become senile, you won't know it." ~ Bill Cosby
• "When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types." ~ Cyril Connolly
• "When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old." ~ Mark Twain
• "The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older." ~ Hume Cronyn
• "You will become a hypocrite, you'll become a liar. You'll try and paper up your own cracks... and that's what being an adult is all about. Then you have babies and... *shrug* that's it. *long pause* Sorry! (laughs)" ~ Thom Yorke

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