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Saturday 30 November 2013

Age Quotes and Sayings 11

AGE QUOTES PAGE (11)


It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game. ~Vin Scully

It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out. 
~George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860

At another year
I would not boggle
Except that when I jog
I joggle.
~Ogden Nash, "Birthday on the Beach"

All diseases run into one, old age. 
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. 
~Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me.  I grow older.
~Li Po

In dog years, I'm dead. 
~Author Unknown

Middle age:  The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you. 
~Robert Quillen

If youth but know,
And old age only could.
~Henri Estienne

Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces. 
~Michel de Montaigne

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. 
~Mark Twain

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~Mark Twain

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
~Henry Ford

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~Mark Twain

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
~C. S. Lewis

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
~Kurt Vonnegut

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
C. S. Lewis

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~Robert Frost

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
~Andrew Carnegie

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
~Agatha Christie

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
~Confucius

All diseases run into one, old age.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
~Aristotle

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman

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