927 private quotes tagged age

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.” — Agatha Christie

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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 Ullman

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“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.” — Emily Dickinson

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“Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.” — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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“I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.” — James Broughton

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“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.” — Hosea Ballou

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“Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.” — John Adams

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“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” — Sam Ewing

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“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” — Tom Stoppard

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“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.” — Dwight L. Moody

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“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

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“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone but, years after, we know it was much later.” — Mignon McLaughlin

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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.” — Andre Maurois

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“Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” — Betty Friedan

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“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.” — Lauren Bacall

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“Old age is no place for sissies.” — Bette Davis

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“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.” — Euripides

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“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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“You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.” — Judith Viorst

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“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.” — Golda Meir

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“The trick is growing up without growing old.” — Casey Stengel

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“In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.” — Pope Paul VI

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“As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.” — Margaret Mead

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