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Aging Quotes by George Sand
- One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of…
- It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,…
- 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…
- The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
More Aging Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- 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
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
- I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon