“The secret to staying young is to live
honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
-
Lucille Ball
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“We don’t stop playing because we grow
old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw
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“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If
you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
-
Mark Twain
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“No one is so old as those who have
outlived enthusiasm.”
- Henry David Thoreau
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“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is
the youth of old age.”
- Victor Hugo
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“The old believe everything: the
middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too
soon and wise too late.”
-
Benjamin Franklin
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“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home
on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for
you.”
-
Ogden Nash
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“You know you are getting old when the
candles cost more than the cake.”
-
Bob Hope
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“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
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“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 |
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”
- Henry David Thoreau |
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but
never remembers her age.”
- Robert Frost |
“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.” - George Burns |
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch
what they do.”
- Andrew Carnegie |
“I am not young
enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“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 |
“Every man over forty is a scoundrel.”
- George Bernard Shaw |
“All diseases run into one, old age.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got
to start young.”
- Theodore Roosevelt |
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
- Aristotle |
“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older
than I am.”
- Francis Bacon |
“A
man growing old becomes a child again.”
- Sophocles |
“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with
age.”
- Pope John |
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
- Tom Stoppard |
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to
keep them in working order.”
- John Adams |
“I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's
time for my nap.”
- Bob Hope |
“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the
years are short and day's long.”
- Pope Paul |
“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.”
- Bette Midler |
“Age is how we determine how valuable you are.”
- Jane Elliot |
“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent,
protects you from age.”
- Jeanne Moreau |
“In my dreams, I
never have an age.”
― Madeleine L'Engle |
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old.
All you have to do is live long enough.”
- Don Marquis |
“You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older
because you stop laughing.”
- Maurice Chevalier |
“The trick is growing up without growing old.”
- Casey Stengel |
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into
us.”
- Beverly Sills |
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.”
- Euripides |
“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to
a man.”
- James Thurber |
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is
that it's such a nice change from being young.”
- William Feather |
“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week
or two he will feel as good as ever.”
- Don Marquis |
