Aging Quotes
1128 quotes by 787 authors
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Education is the best provision for old age.
— Aristotle
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Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
— Louis Armstrong
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When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do…
— Chinua Achebe
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
— Margaret Atwood
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
— Saint Augustine
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
— Lauren Bacall
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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…
— Francis Bacon
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
— Francis Bacon
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
— Russell Baker
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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
— Faith Baldwin
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
— Lucille Ball
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
— Franklin P. Adams
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
— Brigitte Bardot
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
— Dave Barry
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
— John Barrymore
Who Wrote These Aging Quotes
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