Age quotations

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◆ Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

- Samuel Ullman99

◆ 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.

- Confucius99

◆ I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

- Francis Bacon99

◆ The trick is growing up without growing old.

- Casey Stengel99

◆ Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

- John Adams99

◆ Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

- Golda Meir99

◆ Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

- Victor Hugo99

◆ Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

- Ogden Nash99

◆ Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

- Betty Friedan99

◆ You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

- Maurice Chevalier99

◆ A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez99

◆ If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

- Kevin Spacey99

◆ Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

- Hugh Hefner99

◆ 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 Lessing99

◆ To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich99