Age Quotes & Aging Quotations
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"Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy."
~Author Unknown~ Age quotes

"If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant
that the young could somehow acquire it as well."
~Lawana Blackwell~ Aging quotations

"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else."
~Katharine Graham~ Inspirational quotes

"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp
if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
~Doug Larson~

"No man loves life like him that's growing old."
~Sophocles~ Age quotes

"Some folks as they grow older grow wise
but most folks simply grow stubborner."
~Josh Billings~

"It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how
can you tell how long you are going to live?"
~Mignon McLaughlin~ Aging quotes

"The number one factor in aging is burdens.
Your burdens, or how you carry them, make you old."
~Scarlett Bene~

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."
~Henry Ford~ Age quote

"As we grow old the beauty steals inward."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"It's all that the young can do for the old;
to shock them and keep them up to date."
~George Bernard Shaw~

"We don't stop playing because we grow old,
we grow old because we stop playing."
~George Bernard Shaw~

"The whole business of marshaling ones energies
becomes more and more important as one grows older."
~Hume Cronyn~ Aging quotes

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more
cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

"A person is always startled when he hears himself
seriously called an old man for the first time."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes~

"You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt;
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;
as young as your hope, as old as your despair."
~Douglas MacArthur~ Age quotes

"There is no old age. There is as there always was just you."
~Carol Matthau~

"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."
~John Barrymore~

"Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life."
~Charles Dickens~

"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen."
~Brigitte Bardot~ Age quote

"Grandchildren don't make a man feel old;
it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother."
~G. Norman Collie~

"I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990."
~Dave Barry~

"To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and
one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
~Henri Amiel~ aging quotes

"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget
to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down."
~Leo Rosenberg~

"The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. 'Why,' I answered without a thought, 'now'."
~David Grayson~

"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~ Age quotes

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."
~Bonnie Prudden~

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