MORE QUOTES ON AGING
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. "
John Greier
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old. "
Marie Dressler
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. "
Garson Kanin
"If a human is modest and satisfied, old age will not be heavy on him. If
he is not, even youth will be a burden. " Plato
"The only source of knowledge is experience. " Albert Einstein
"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. " Unknown
"The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't say much. "
Germain G. Glidden
"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer
we should see through it. "
Unknown
"Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be.
The last of life, for which the first was made. "
Robert Browning "'Rabbi Ben Ezra"
"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't
matter. " Satchel Paige; also attributed to Jack Benny
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young
know everything. " Oscar Wilde
"I love everything that 's old--old friends, old times, old manners, old
books, old wine. " Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer, Act I
"It would be a good thing if young people were wise, and old people were
strong, but God has arranged things better. " Martin Luther
"I am not young enough to know everything. " Oscar Wilde
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. " Benjamin
Franklin
"Age ain't nothin' but a number. But age is other things too. It is wisdom,
if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it
is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn
the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't
get run over. " Miriam Makeba
"The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. "
Unknown
"The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. " Unknown
"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. "
Charles Schultz
"I am afraid ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before,
to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is
culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to
oppose it. He that lives, must grow old; and he that would rather grow old
than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age. " Samuel Johnson
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt
to think themselves sober enough. "
Philip Dormer Stanhope
"There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory; the
other two I forget. " Unknown
"You're getting old when you don't care where your spouse goes, just as
long as you don't have to go along. " Unknown
"Old age comes at a bad time. " Unknown
"One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common –- discontent. "
Matthew Arnold
