Age Quotes And Sayings

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“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.”
– Martin Buxbaum

“Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.”
– Marty Bucella

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”
– Maurice Chevalier

“Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages.  It’s the sin of my middle age, too.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
– Mignon McLaughlin 

“There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” 
– Milan Kundera

“Age is a prison from which we cannot escape.”
– Morrow Bourne

“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”
– Muriel Spark

“In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.”
– Nikita Ivanovich Panin

“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.”
– Ogden Nash

“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”
– Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I am not young enough to know everything.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” 
– Oscar Wilde

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
– Pablo Picasso 

“The years teach much which the days never knew.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It’s like this.  Father Time keeps pitching the years at us.  We swing and miss at a few.  We hit a few out of the park.  We try not to take any called strikes.”
– Robert Brault

“Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be.”
– Robert Browning

“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”
– Robert Southey

“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
– Saint Aurelius Augustine

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” 
– Salvador Dalí

“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”
– Sam Ewing

“Life is one long process of getting tired.”
– Samuel Butler

“My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.”
– Samuel Johnson

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