Aging Quotes And Sayings

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“Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.”
– Robert Benchley

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Jack Benny

“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory”
– Arthur Christopher Benson

“A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die. ”
– Bernard Berenson

“I hope I never get so old I get religious.”
– Ingmar Bergman

“When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It’s like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about”
– Ingmar Bergman

“I don’t worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we’re all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don’t know. We just have to accept it.”
– Ingrid Bergman

“When you’re young, you say what you feel. When you’re adult, you speak what you think. When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.”
– Toba Beta

“longevity, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“age, n. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit. ”
– Ambrose Bierce

“Age has given me a serenity, and an understanding of who I am and what my limits are.”
– Barbara Boldt

“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

“I don’t mind growing old. I’m just not used to it.”
– Victor Borgw

“All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ”
– Elizabeth Bowen

“With age, art and life become one.”
– Georges Braque

“The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do.”
– Robert brault

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ”
– Walt Disney

“I am not young enough to know everything. ”
– Oscar Wilde

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been. ”
– Mark Twain

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. ”
– John Lennon

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ”
– C.S. Lewis

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. ”
– C.S. Lewis

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
– margaret Atwood

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ”
– H.L. Mencken

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

– J.K. Rowling

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
– Dave Barry

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is. ”
– Ellen Degeneres

“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ”
– Herbert Hoover

“Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”, here’s an update for you. Nowadays 80%of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!”
– Andy Rooney

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