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Aging Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and…
- I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
- These fragments I have shored against my ruins
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