Here’s 13 quick quotes about aging:
1. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old. -Mark Twain (1835-1910)
2. Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It’s when the mind catches up with the body. -Raquel Welch
3. What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. -Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
4. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. -Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
5. The latter part of a wise person’s life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. -Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
6. Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. -Edward Young (1683-1765)
7. Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. -Samuel Ullman (1840-1924)
8. When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. -I.F. Stone (1907-1989)
9. If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn’t be done. -Unknown
10. 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. -Fay Weldon
11. There is not a more repulsive spectacle than an old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. -Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (1799-1877)
12. When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable. -Unknown
13. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty. -Samuel Ullman (1840-1924)
Anyone have any thoughts while reading these? Which # is your favorite? Please share any age quotes you might have in the comments section BELOW.
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