Aging Quotes And Sayings

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“We’ll never be as young as we are tonight. ”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“When I was your age, television was called books.”
– William Goldman

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm. ”
– George Carlin

“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows. ”
– Audrey Hepburn

“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.”
– Laurell K. Hamilton

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. ”
– Oscar Wilde

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
– Vladimir Nabokov

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ”
– Willa Cather

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. ”
– Gabriel garcia Marquez

“Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. ”
– Maya Angelou

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ”
– Robertson Davies

“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. ”
– Neil Gaiman

“he comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.”
– berkely Breathed

“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
– bertolt Brecht

“Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.”
– Emily Bronte

“I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.”
– james broughton

“You know you’re old when you’ve lost all your marvels”
– Merry browne

“Therefore I summon age / To grant youth’s heritage.”
– Robert browning

“What Youth deemed crystal, / Age finds out was dew”
– Robert browning

“Grow old along with me! / The best is yet to be, / The last of life, for which the first was made”
– Robert browning

“What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. ”
– Robert browning

“To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.”
– Martin Buber

“This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday. I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn’t let me ”
– Art Buchwald

“I just don’t want to die the same day Castro dies”
– Art Buchwald

“Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked”
– Pearl S. Buck

“As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child”
– Charles Burchfield

“This is an adventure. I love what we do. The day before I die, I want a painting half finished on the easel. The day I die, I want to yearn to finish it.”
– John Burk

“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
– Edmund Burke

“But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.”
– Fanny Burney

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