Age And Aging

(37 votes)   Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(37 votes)   One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Harry A. Overstreet
American Psychologist

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(37 votes)   To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(36 votes)   I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA

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(36 votes)   One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.

Johnson

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(36 votes)   Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

Sarah Orne Jewett
1849-1909, American Author

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(35 votes)   A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Joyce Carey

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(35 votes)   Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

William Feather
1888-18, American Writer, Businessman

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(34 votes)   I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Tina Turner
1938-, American Musician, Actress

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(34 votes)   If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

Proverbs

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(34 votes)   It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Marie Dressler
1869-1934, Canadian Stage and Film Actor

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(34 votes)   Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(34 votes)   Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Dwight L. Moody
1837-1899, American Evangelist

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(34 votes)   We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Samuel Beckett
1906-1989, Irish Dramatist, Novelist

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(33 votes)   Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

Carlos Pena Romulo

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