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title: "29 Grows Older Quotes by 24 authors"
description: "Browse 29 Grows Older quotes by 24 authors. Discover the best Grows Older sayings and thoughts."
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> [Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/every-evil-in-the-bud-is-easily-crushed-as-it-grows-older-it-becomes/)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/)

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> [“Its the body grows older... The Mind grows wiser...stronger...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-geaney/its-the-body-grows-older-the-mind-grows-wiser-stronger/)

[Michelle Geaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-geaney/)

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> [As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/basil-rathbone/as-one-grows-older-one-becomes-more-critical-of-oneself-and-less-of/)

[Basil Rathbone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/basil-rathbone/)

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> [The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hume-cronyn/the-whole-business-of-marshaling-ones-energies-becomes-more-and-more/)

[Hume Cronyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hume-cronyn/)

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> [An old man who marries a young wife grows younger but she grows older.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/an-old-man-who-marries-a-young-wife-grows-younger-but-she-grows-older/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It is the nature of a man as he grows older- to protest against change, particularly changes for the better](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/it-is-the-nature-of-a-man-as-he-grows-older-to-protest-against-change/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-paul/as-a-man-grows-older-it-is-harder-and-harder-to-frighten-him/)

[Jean Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-paul/)

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> [Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katharine-tynan/irish-people-have-a-trick-of-over-statement-at-which-one-ceases-to/)

[Katharine Tynan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/katharine-tynan/)

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> [“As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-r-r-tolkien/as-the-world-grows-older-there-is-loss-and-gain-let-us-not-with/)

[J.R.R. Tolkien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-r-r-tolkien/)

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> [It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-townsend-warner/it-is-best-as-one-grows-older-to-strip-oneself-of-possessions-to-shed/)

[Sylvia Townsend Warner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-townsend-warner/)

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> [I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/i-don-t-believe-one-grows-older-i-think-that-what-happens-early-on-in/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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> [As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-e-burchfield/as-an-artist-grows-older-he-has-to-fight-disillusionment-and-learn-to/)

[Charles E. Burchfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-e-burchfield/)

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> [The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-heart-never-grows-better-by-age-i-fear-rather-worse-always-harder/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/it-is-the-nature-of-a-person-as-he-she-grows-older-to-protest-against/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alister-mackenzie/there-may-be-a-certain-amount-of-pleasurable-excitement-in-running-up/)

[Alister MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alister-mackenzie/)

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> [Your confidence grows as you get older, particularly when you're in a loving relationship. Everything strengthens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-kidman/your-confidence-grows-as-you-get-older-particularly-when-you-re-in-a/)

[Nicole Kidman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-kidman/)

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> [As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/as-a-man-grows-older-his-ability-to-sit-still-and-follow-indoor/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [I say, as a singer grows older, his conception grows a little deeper, because he lives life and he understands what he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-cooke/i-say-as-a-singer-grows-older-his-conception-grows-a-little-deeper/)

[Sam Cooke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-cooke/)

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> [As one grows older one must try not to work oneself to death unnecessarily. At least that's how it is with me...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-jung/as-one-grows-older-one-must-try-not-to-work-oneself-to-death/)

[Carl Jung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-jung/)

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> [By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may make advances in morality (which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blaise-pascal/by-a-peculiar-prerogative-not-only-each-individual-is-making-daily/)

[Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blaise-pascal/)

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> [“The boy will grow older, and over time there will be other songs – not many – ten or maybe twenty in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-cave/the-boy-will-grow-older-and-over-time-there-will-be-other-songs-not/)

[Nick Cave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-cave/)

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> [The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hume-cronyn/the-whole-business-of-marshaling-one-s-energies-becomes-more-and-more/)

[Hume Cronyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hume-cronyn/)

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> [It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/faye-dunaway/it-s-interesting-as-one-grows-older-to-keep-in-touch-with-the-cutting/)

[Faye Dunaway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/faye-dunaway/)

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> [as one grows older, one realizes how little one knows about any relationship, or even about oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lillian-hellman/as-one-grows-older-one-realizes-how-little-one-knows-about-any/)

[Lillian Hellman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lillian-hellman/)

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> [As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/as-one-grows-older-one-becomes-wiser-and-more-foolish/)

[Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/)

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> [but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/but-one-loses-as-one-grows-older-something-of-the-lightness-of-one-s/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/it-is-the-nature-of-a-man-as-he-grows-older-a-small-bridge-intime/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [I sometimes imagine that as one grows older one comes to live a role which as a young person one merely 'played.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/may-sarton/i-sometimes-imagine-that-as-one-grows-older-one-comes-to-live-a-role/)

[May Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/may-sarton/)

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> [“Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence-2/apparently-one-grows-more-carnal-and-more-mortal-as-one-grows-older/)

[D.H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence-2/)

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