Old age proverbs

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◆ I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ I'm willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

- Nicholas Sparks99

◆ It's not how old you are, it's how you are old.

- Jules Renard99

◆ Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!

- Robert Browning99

◆ When I turn thirty, in thirty days or so, I might be feeling old, so I'll probably call my grandma up, because as old as I'll feel, she'll be feeling older. Twelve years older.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

- George Burns99

◆ There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

- P.G. Wodehouse99

◆ Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

- Aristotle99

◆ That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

- Neil Gaiman99

◆ It's [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game.

- Betty White99

◆ The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

- Saki99

◆ The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez99

◆ People don't love each other at our age, Marthe—they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.

- Albert Camus99