Thoughts On Aging...

Quotes on Aging

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

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Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.

~ C.S. Lewis

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By the time you're 80 years old, you've learned everything.  You only have to remember it.

~ George Burns

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One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet.

~ Lee Marvin

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We don't stop laughing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop laughing.

~ Anonymous

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If I were given an opportunity to present a gift to the next generation,
it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. 

~ Charles Schulz

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An aging wife inquired of her husband, Will you love me when I'm old, gray, and wrinkled
To which he answered, I do.

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Enjoy the little things
for one day you may look back and realize
they were the big things. 

~ Robert Brault

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Old age has its pleasures, which though different, are no less than the pleasures of youth. 

~ W. Somerset Maugham

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I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. 

~ Agatha Christie

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For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, tho', in another dress.  And as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars. invisible by day. 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God. 

~ Comedian Red Skeleton

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Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and
would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. 

~ Norman Cousins

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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. 

~ Norman Cousins

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It is bad to suppress laughter.  It goes back down and spreads your hips. 

~ Comedian Fred Allen

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It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart. 

~ Martin Luther

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The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills. 

~ Richard Needham

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Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding. 

~ John D. Rockefeller

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To me - old age is fifteen years older than I am.

~ Bernard Mannes Baruch

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Old age is when you know all the answers-but nobody asks you any questions.

~ Lawrence J. Peter

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When a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking younger,
he may be sure that they think he is growing old. 

~ Washington Irving

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Old age is just as important and meaningful a part of God's perfect will as is youth.
God is every bit as interested in the old as the young.

~ J.O. Sanders

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Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it.  One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

~ Paul Tournier

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

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Old age is like everything else.
To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

~ Fred Astaire

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It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

~ Vin Scully

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain

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A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer

~ Hesketh Pearson

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 The three immutable facts: You own stuff. You will die. Someone will get that stuff

~ Jane Bryant

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I do not know what the big deal is about old age.
Old people who shine from inside look ten to twenty years younger.

~ Dolly Parton

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 Growing older is not upsetting;
being perceived as old is.

~ Kenny Rogers

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 To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder;
but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

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If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

~ Henry Ford

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.

~ Albert Einstein

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I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

~ Clint Eastwood

You know, by the time you reach my age,
you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

~ Ronald Reagan

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If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

~ Gelett Burgess

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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

~ Doris Day

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