50th Birthday Quotes – Quotations And Sayings About Age And Aging

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“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.”
– Thomas Carlyle

“I’m not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I’m trying.”
– Tiger Woods

“In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.”
– Timothy Leary

“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
– Tom Stoppard

“We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.”
– Tony Robbins

“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”
– Virginia Woolf

“It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
– Virginia Woolf

“The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.”
– Vivienne Westwood

“Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.”
– Vivienne Westwood

“He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.”
– Voltaire

“Now is the age of anxiety.”
– W. H. Auden

“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.”
– Will Durant

“Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
– William Blake

“To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.”
– William Hazlitt

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”
– William James

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.”
– William Wordsworth

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