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Growing Older Quotes

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.  ~Jim Fiebig


In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.  ~E.B. White


The years teach much which the days never knew.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


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


Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.  ~Mark Twain,
Following the Equator


Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  ~George Bernard Shaw


There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.  ~John Mortimer


Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.  ~Maurice Chevalier,
New York Times, 9 October 1960


Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.  ~Charles Dickens


Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many.  ~Author Unknown


A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life:  maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves.  A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 
Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell


Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.  ~Robert Southey, 
The Doctor


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


How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?  ~Satchel Paige


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 vigour.  With such people the grey 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


The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright


When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.  ~Mark Twain


Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope


Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.  ~Caryn Leschen


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


Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age.  It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.  ~Franklin Adams


Everyone is the age of their heart.  ~Guatemalan Proverb


There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.  ~Author Unknown


Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim


There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.  ~J.B. Priestly


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown


Age is a high price to pay for maturity.  ~Tom Stoppard


By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out.  ~Author Unknown

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