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Quotes about age and aging
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. (Addison Joseph)
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. (Addison Joseph)
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be. (Addison Joseph)
The surest sign of age is loneliness. (Addison Joseph)
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. (Addison Joseph)
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. (Addison Joseph)
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. (Addison Joseph)
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. (Addison Joseph)
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. (Addison Joseph)
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. (Addison Joseph)
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. (Addison Joseph)
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. (Addison Joseph)
Age will not be defied. (Addison Joseph)
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied. (Addison Joseph)
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. (Addison Joseph)
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. (Addison Joseph)
The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. (Addison Joseph)
Old age is the verdict of life. (Addison Joseph)
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. (Addison Joseph)
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside --from others. We do not accept it willingly. (Addison Joseph)
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. (Addison Joseph)
We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals. (Addison Joseph)
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something. (Addison Joseph)
I hope I never get so old I get religious. (Addison Joseph)
I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else. (Addison Joseph)
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