The repository contains 60 quotes in the category “Growing Old.”
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When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.
Cary Grant
1904 — 1986
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt
1884 — 1962
You are never too old to be what you might have been.
George Eliot
1819 — 1880
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
André Maurois
1885 — 1967
’Tis late ere an old man comes to know he is old.
Thomas Fuller
1654 — 1734
Nobody wants the respect that youth pays to age.
Oft from shrivelled skin comes useful counsel.
In growing old, one grows more foolish and more wise.
Duke François de La Rochefoucauld
1613 — 1680
When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I’m old, the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.
Sir Fred Hoyle
1915 — 2001
When asked how it felt to turn eighty:
Pretty good, considering the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier
1888 — 1972
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas
1834 — 1917
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
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
If youth is wasted on the young, then retirement is wasted on the old.
I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.
Andy Rooney
1919 —
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
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I’m not sure that old age isn’t the best part of life.
C. S. Lewis
1898 — 1963
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
My secret to staying young: Having no sense of time.
Steven Wright
1955 —
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