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Famous Quotes On Age

Famous Quotes On Age

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

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

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

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

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren

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

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

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel

Adults are obsolete children.
Dr. Seuss

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Helen Hayes

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel

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

Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
Maurice Chevalier

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

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

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

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing