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Aging Quotes by Lydia M. Child
- Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
- The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient…
- The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.
- A human heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing…
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