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Age & Aging Quotes We spend our lives on
the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up
again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A
bloody clock. When you reach forty
you can’t do anything every day. When you are forty,
half of you belongs to the past... I refuse to admit I'm
more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate. The secret of staying
young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. If I were younger, I'd
know more. A man is not old until
his regrets take the place of dreams. To me, old age is always
fifteen years older than I am. Grow old along with
me! What Youth deemed crystal, Years steal Nature gives you the
face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have
at fifty. I prefer old age to
the alternative. One keeps on forgetting
old age up to the very brink of the grave. Old age is no place
for sissies. As one grows older,
one becomes wiser and more foolish. I grow old . . . I grow
old . . . We do not count a man's
years until he has nothing else to count. If youth but knew; if
age but could. At twenty years of age,
the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgment. Men, like peaches and
pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. Old age is like an opium
dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. Middle age is when your
age starts to show around your middle. After a man passes sixty,
his mischief is mainly in his head. Perhaps being old is
having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People
you know, yet can't quite name. I have everything I had
twenty years ago, only it’s all a little bit lower. For age is opportunity
no less After thirty, a body
has a mind of its own. At age fifty, every
man has the face he deserves. Age is a question of
mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. How old would you be
if you didn't know how old you was? Age seldom arrives smoothly
or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks. Old Age: First you forget
names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up,
then you forget to pull your zipper down. Some reckon their age
by years, Every man over forty
is a scoundrel. When men reach their
sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking. Said the little boy,
“Sometimes I drop my spoon.” Youth is the time for
adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. Old age is the most
unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Nobody grows old merely
by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting out ideals. Years
may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. True terror is to wake
up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the
country. Be wise with speed; Like our shadows, We have a saying in
the movement that we don't trust anybody over thirty. The old believe everything,
the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. |
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