Age Quotes, Sayings about getting old

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield

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Youth has no age.
- Pablo Picasso

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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
- Anonymous

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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
- Chili Davis

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Don’t worry about avoiding temptation… as you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill

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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young

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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Anonymous

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
- Anonymous

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Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts,Old age is slow in both.
- Joseph Addison

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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals ?
- Anonymous

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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope

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Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise.
- Mark Twain

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
- Oscar Wilde

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To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
- Bernard Baruch

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I grow more intense as I age.
- Anonymous

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It takes a long time to become young.

Submitted by Sarah.
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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Anonymous

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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Anonymous

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Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
- Anonymous

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An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo

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I was always taught to respect my elders and I’ve now reached the age when I don’t have anybody to respect.
- Anonymous

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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Anonymous

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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
- Anonymous

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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw

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Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Anonymous

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
- Anonymous

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There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
- Anonymous

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Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
- Anonymous

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Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.
- Anonymous

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Old age comes at a bad time.
- San Banducci

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When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn’t her youth he is seeking but his own.
- Lenore Coffee

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It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

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The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Youth is an object of Hollywood dreams but Hollywood is an object that has aged.

Submitted by Martin Dansky.
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We are always the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein

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We get too soon old and too late smart.
- Pennsylvania Dutch

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You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope

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No man is ever old enough to know better.
- Holbrook Jackson

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