~ Aging and Old Age Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]Every man who has lived his life to the full should by the time his senior years are reached have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

Clarence Randall

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Finley Peter Dunne

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[highlight-text]One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Paul W. Litchfield

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[highlight-text]Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Igor Stravinsky

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Quentin Crisp

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

Eleanor Roosevelt

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

George Eliot

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

George Bernard Shaw

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[highlight-text]Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

Jonathan Swift

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[highlight-text]If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement or read any of those stinking upward and onwarders - you err - I mean to have some good out of being old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Grow old with me! The best is yet to be The last of life for which the first was made: Our times are in his hands Who sayeth 'a whole I plant Youth shows but half; Trust God; see all nor be afraid.'

Robert Browning

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When you reach your sixties you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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[highlight-text]We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty interest after interest attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

William Hazlitt

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[highlight-text]Zsa Zsa Gabor when asked which of the Gabor women was the oldest said 'She'll never admit it but I believe it is Mama.' When men grow virtuous in their old age they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Jonathan Swift

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

Marguerite Yourcenar