The repository contains 60 quotes in the category “Growing Old.”
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I’m not denying my age, I’m embellishing my youth.
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.
Lowell Thomas
1892 — 1981
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
Maturity is not an outgrowing but a growing up.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
There comes a time in every man’s life, and I’ve had plenty of them.
Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975
If anyone wants me tell them I’m being embalmed.
Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
George Burns
1896 — 1996
All would live long, but none would be old.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.
Retirement is the period when you exchange the bills in your wallet for snapshots of your grandchildren.
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
I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
Josh Billings
1818 — 1885
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
Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.
Dame Agatha Christie
1890 — 1976
The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon.
Charles M. Schulz
1922 — 2000
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
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