Memorable Old Meaning Quotes

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"Old age is just a state of mind."
Buddhist Proverb
"Time and tide wait for no man."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do."
Golda Meir
"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement."
Benjamin Franklin
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The older I become, the more I realize that I am a light that has been setting myself on fire to keep others warm."
Unknown
"Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals."
James Matthew Barrie
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"The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been."
Madeleine L'Engle
"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."
Joe Gores
"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."
Muhammad Ali
"Youth is wasted on the young."
George Bernard Shaw
"The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for."
Will Rogers
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength."
Betty Friedan
"To me, old age is always ten years older than I am."
Bernard Baruch
"The older I get, the more I realize that I am not as important as I think I am."
Anonymous
"Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you’re on the ground, you’ll know what it was like."
Anonymous
"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."
Plato
"To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
Bernard Baruch
"As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer."
Robert Breault
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in personality. You’ve just gotten more of it."
Maurice Baring
"To be elderly is to be wise; it is to see the world in a greater relation, and it is a time in which the patient become the stronger."
Myra Smith
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"The only thing that really matters is that you made it through another year. Happy birthday!"
Anonymous
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
Jules Renard
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re on the ground, you’ll know what it was like."
Anonymous
"At twenty years of age the Will reigns; at thirty, the Wit; and at forty, the Judgment."
Benjamin Franklin
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love."
Sophia Loren
"Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been."
David Bowie
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
George Bernard Shaw
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
Sallust
"The more things change, the more they remain the same."
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
John Lubbock
"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The road to wisdom? Well, it’s plain and simple to express: err and err and err again but less and less and less."
Piet Hein
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"The older you get, the more you realize that you are not a bag of bones. You are a spirit wishing to be embraced by life."
Oprah Winfrey
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard it is too late to turn back."
Josh Billings
"Wisdom begins in wonder."
Socrates
"As the sun sets in the west, so too must we learn to let go of the day."
Unknown
"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
Henri Amiel
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
Lucille Ball
"One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up."
Robert Bly
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be."
Robert Browning
"It takes a long time to become young."
Pablo Picasso
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
George Bernard Shaw
"Old age is no place for sissies."
Bette Davis
"The older I get, the more I realize that I am not who I thought I was."
Anaïs Nin
"The older I get, the better I was."
Unknown
"The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball."
Doug Larson
"Don’t let aging get you down. It’s too hard to get back up."
John W. Gardner
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anaïs Nin
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
John Adams
"To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with."
Mark Twain
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Jack Benny
"Time will pass, and seasons will come and go."
Roy Bean
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
Seneca
"It's not how old you are, but how you are old."
Jules Renard
"The older I get, the more I realize that I am less than I thought I was."
Philip Roth
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
Seneca
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re up there, it’s a wonderful view."
Harold Macmillan
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"The secrets of happiness are an accumulation of small pleasures."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The wisdom of the aged is a treasure that grows richer each passing year."
Thomas Hardy
"Age is opportunity no less than youth itself."
William Osler
"Age is not just a number; it's a badge of honor."
Unknown
"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."
Booth Tarkington
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
Henry L. Mencken
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."
Unknown
"Old age is not for sissies."
Bette Davis
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
Oscar Wilde
"As you get older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn
"Old age comes on suddenly and not gradually as is thought."
Emily Dickinson
"The event of aging gives you the opportunity to take control of your life."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life."
Charles R. Swindoll
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
Albert Einstein
"We are always the same age inside."
Gertrude Stein
"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
Chili Davis
"Old friends are like old wine; they get better as they grow older."
Unknown
"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition."
Samuel Johnson
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
Mark Twain
"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
Unknown
"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."
George Burns
"Old age is like everything else; to make a success of it, you’ve got to start young."
Ted Kennedy
"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
"Age is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you."
Unknown
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
"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."
Confucius
"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
Benjamin Franklin
"It's not how old you are, it's how you are old."
Jules Renard
"The fountain of youth is in your mind, not in some enchanted place."
Robert E. Lee
"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new."
Sammy Hagar
"The greatest tragedy is not that of the old man who is old, but the old man who has forgotten how to be young."
Unknown
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