Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Growing Old.

The repository contains 60 quotes in the category “Growing Old.”
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I’ve already lived about twenty years longer than my life expectancy at the time I was born. That’s a source of annoyance to a great many people.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

When I go in for a physical, they no longer ask how old I am. They just carbon-date me.

President Ronald Reagan
1911 — 2004

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen
1935 —     

All would live long, but none would be old.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Age 75:

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

If anyone wants me tell them I’m being embalmed.

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

Manager of the New York Yankees, to a young Mickey Mantle, who was surprised that Stengel, age 63, was teaching him baseball fundamentals:

Do you think I was born old?

Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

Groucho Marx
1890 — 1977

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

The Phillies offered me a contract to come back in January. The only contingency was that I had to lose twenty. So I lost twenty, reported to spring training, only to find there was a huge misunderstanding. They were talking years, not pounds.

Tug McGraw
1944 — 2004

Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very good at things that I was not very good at when I was young.

Thomas Sowell
1930 —     

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956

By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Burns
1896 — 1996

Once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.

Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000

The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon.

Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000

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