Aging Quotes And Sayings

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“Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left”
– George Burns

“By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. ”
– George Burns

“At my age flowers scare me.”
– George Burns

“Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances”
– Samuel Butler

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.”
– Augustus Ceasar

“As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face”
– Joseph Campbell

“The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.”
– Albert Camus

“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. ”
– Charlotte Bronte

“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life’s most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness? ”
– Milan Kundera

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. ”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

“Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains. ”
– Winston Churchill

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ”
– Albert Einstein

“When you are five, you know your age down to the month. Even in your twenties, you know how old you are. I’m twenty-three you say, or maybe twenty-seven. But then in your thirties, something strange starts to happen. It is a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m–you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going to say thirty-three, but you are not. You’re thirty-five. And then you’re bothered, because you wonder if this is the beginning of the end. It is, of course, but it’s decades before you admit it.”
– Sara Gruen

“When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. ”
– George Burns

“Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed. ”
– Charles M. Schultz

“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ”
– Groucho Marx

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. ”
– Albert Einstein

“I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers… this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. ”
– terry Pratchett

“I’m seventeen and I’m crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane. ”
– ray bradbury

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. ”
– Robert frost

“You’d be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies. ”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. ”
– Nicholas Sparks

“The only drink I like ice in is water, because you can’t water down water. I’m like that with love, too. Don’t you dare add any ice to the hot liquid loving I’m trying to pour all over you. ”
– jarod Kintz

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these.”
– Gautama Buddha

“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. ”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. “Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
– george Washington Carver

“I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. ”
– Virginia Woolf

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. ”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ”
– Mark twain

“No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won’t hurt ”
– Hunter S. Thompson

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