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Aging Quotes by Mark Twain
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
- I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be…
- The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
More Aging Quotes
- Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
- Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and… — Francis Bacon
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do. — Harrison Ford
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- 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