927 private quotes tagged age

“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.” — Judith Viorst

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“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.” — Golda Meir

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“The trick is growing up without growing old.” — Casey Stengel

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“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.” — Pope Paul VI

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“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.” — Margaret Mead

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“The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” — Doug Larson

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“Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.” — Kitty O'Neill Collins

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“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.” — Warren Beatty

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“I'm not afraid of aging.” — Shelley Duvall

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“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” — Louis Kronenberger

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“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.” — Harrison Ford

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“I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.” — Sting

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“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.” — Jean Paul

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“As men get older, the toys get more expensive.” — Marvin Davis

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“There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.” — Fay Weldon

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“No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.” — Katharine Graham

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“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!” — Kevin Spacey

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“Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.” — James Thurber

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“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.” — Don Marquis

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“We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“We pay when old for the excesses of youth.” — J. B. Priestley

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“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.” — Beverly Sills

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“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.” — Max Lerner

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