Aging Quotes

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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising… — George Sand
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left… — Patrick Rothfuss
When I was your age, television was called books. — William Goldman
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! — Audrey Hepburn
Wisdom comes with winters — Oscar Wilde
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes… — Neil Gaiman
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that… — J D Salinger
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were… — Abigail Van Buren
We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near. — Lewis Carroll
You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened. — Sarah Addison Allen
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents — Albert Camus
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. — Robert Frost
To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit. — Maya Angelou
Books, Cats, Life is Good. — Edward Gorey
Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at… — John Mortimer
It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a periodâ€”days or weeksâ€”without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a… — Bette Greene
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs… — Meg Rosoff

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