Growing Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg Download Open image “Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing Growing old Growing older
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
one doesn't really grow older; it's just that other people grow younger. — Patricia Moyes Copy Share Image
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that aging and growing old are not necessarily the same. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I have a strong feeling about this quick movement and changing of society and populations growing - something scary. — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
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Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
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I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image