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Aging |
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| "Growing old is a case of mind
over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." |
| -- Jack Benny, American
comedian/actor/performer |
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| "No man loves life like him
that's growing old." |
| -- Sophocles (495 BC - 406 BC) |
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| "None are so old as those who have outlived
enthusiasm.” |
| -- H.D. Thoreau |
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| "There is no absurdity so
palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you
only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly
repeating it with an air of great solemnity." |
| -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860),
German philosopher |
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"Do not go gentle into that good
night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against
the dying of the light."
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| -- Dylan Thomas
(1914-53), Welsh poet |
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| "A man is not old until
regrets take the place of dreams."
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-- John Barrymore
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"You know you're old when
the candles cost more than the cake."
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-- Bob Hope
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| "Age does not protect you
from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age."
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-- Jeanne Moreau
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| "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect
everything, the young know everything." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),
Irish writer, playwright |
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| "Age wrinkles the body.
Quitting wrinkles the soul." |
| --
Douglas Macarthur
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| It
is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the
character has been set like plaster, and will never soften
again. |
| -- William James (1842-1910), American psychologist,
philosopher |
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"Old
people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability
to set a bad example."
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| --
Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-80), French writer |
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| "The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child
into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm." |
| -- Aldous Leonard Huxley
(1894-1963), British writer |
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| "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the
alternative." |
| -- Maurice Chevalier
(1888-1972), French actor, singer |
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| “Between
eighteen
and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with
money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.” |
| -- Andre Malraux |
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"Most people go on living their everyday life: half
frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is
being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the
world."
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| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe
that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age?
Everything else in marriage is transitory." |
| -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(1844-1900), German philosopher |
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| "I don't believe one grows older. I think that
what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still
and stagnates." |
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-- George Eliot (1819-80), British writer |
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| "There are some things
children cannot know, because once they learn them, they are no
longer children." |
| -- Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant
(1933- ), American philosopher, cartoonist |
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"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and
hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a
man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
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| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832), German writer, scientist |
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| "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old
age." |
| -- Victor Hugo (1802-85), French
poet, dramatist, writer |
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| "Male
aging is getting stiff in all the wrong places." |
| -- Mike Arons, American humanistic
psychologist and educator |
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| "It takes a long time to
become young." |
| -- Pablo Picasso, French artist |
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"When old age shall this
generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." |
| -- John Keats (1795-1821), Irish poet |
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"During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession
of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need
for character in the individual or the ability to think."
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| --
Bernard M. Baruch
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| "Old people think young people
haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have
forgotten about love." |
| -- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992),
American writer |
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| "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and
therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after
generation." |
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-- Pearl S. Buck
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| "Nothing
is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can
enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell
there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure." |
| -- George Santayana |
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| "They tell you that you'll lose your mind
when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss
it very much." |
| -- Anonymous |
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"I
used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I
never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry."
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--
Ralph
Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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| "Pleasure is the only thing to
live for. Nothing ages like happiness." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),
Irish writer, playwright |
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| "Education is the best provision for old age." |
| -- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek
philosopher |
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| "One of the signs of passing
youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings
as we take our place among them." |
| -- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British writer |
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| "People
like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not
grow old no matter how long we live...
never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery
into which we were born." |
| --
Albert Einstein |
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| "The more sand that has
escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see
through it." |
| -- Jean-Paul Sartre, French
philosopher |
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"Day after day, love turns
grey
Like the skin of a dying man.
Night after night, we pretend its all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry as a funeral drum." |
| -- Pink Floyd (Waters/Gilmour) |
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| "Age is a high price to pay
for maturity." |
| -- Tom Stoppard |
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| "As we reach midlife . we are
not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the
startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition
of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial
maintenance duties." |
| -- Gail Sheehy |
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| "Middle age is when your age
starts to show around your middle." |
| -- Bob Hope, American comedian |
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| "Middle age is the time of
life that a man first notices in his wife." |
| -- Richard Willard Armour
(1906-89), American poet |
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| "The great secret that all old
people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty
years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
And that, of course, causes great confusion." |
| -- Doris Lessing, American writer |
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| "You can't help getting older,
but you don't have to get old." |
| -- George Burns, American comedian |
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| "The secret of staying young
is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." |
| -- Lucille Ball, American comedian |
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| "If I knew I'd live this long,
I woulda taken better care of myself." |
| -- Mickey Mantle, American baseball
player |
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| "And in the end, it's not the
years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." |
| -- Abraham Linclon (1809 - 1865) |
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| "The older I grow the more I
distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." |
| -- H. L. Mencken (1880 -1956),
American writer |
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| "It
is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old,
they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." |
| -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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| "Middle age: when you're
sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you
hope it isn't for you." |
| -- Odgen Nash |
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| "A photograph never grows old.
You and I change, people change all through the months and years,
but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a
photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as
you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely.
That is why I think a photograph can be kind." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955), German-born
American theoretical physicist |
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| "True terror is to wake up one
morning and discover that your high school class is running the
country." |
| -- Kurt Vonegut |
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| "The soul is born old but
grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young
and grows old. That is life's tragedy." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900),
Irish writer, playwright |
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| "Take
kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things
of youth." |
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--
Max Ehrmann (1872-1945), American poet,
lawyer |
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| "At a certain age some
people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat." |
| -- Irish Blessing |
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| "When it comes to staying
young, a mind lift beats a face lift any day." |
| -- Marty Bucella |
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| "He was then in his
fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion
begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very
long afterwards." |
| -- Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
(1742-99), German physicist, philosopher |
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| "These are the soul's changes.
I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect
to the sun. Hence my optimism." |
| -- (Adeline) Virginia (Stephen)
Woolf (1882-1941), British writer |
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"I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me." |
| -- T. S. Eliot, American-born
English poet |
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| "Aging is nature's way of
giving you first-hand awareness of how it works its wonders. There
is a season of growing, a season of maturation, a season of
degeneration, and a season of death and rest. Aging is nature's
clock ticking within our bodies, reminding us human life is truly a
game whose players play only while there's time on the clock, though
their plays may be impacting the game for long to come." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra
(1952-2002), American writer |
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| “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 |
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| "Old age, believe me, is a good
and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the
stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as
spectator." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832), German writer, scientist |
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| "Try to keep your soul young
and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the
brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only
way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's
inner happiness." |
| -- George Sand (1804-76), French
writer |
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| "I believe a man is born first
unto himself-- for the happy developing of himself, while the world
is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and
pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the
end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born
to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the
never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible
multitudes of brothers." |
| -- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930),
British writer |
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| "Don't think of retiring from
the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a
fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and
who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come
out as I do, and bark." |
| -- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) |
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| "I speak the truth not so much
as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I
grow older." |
| -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
(1533-92), French essayist |
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