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Quotes about age and aging
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. (Addison Joseph)
No wise man ever wished to be younger. (Addison Joseph)
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. (Addison Joseph)
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. (Addison Joseph)
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. (Addison Joseph)
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. (Addison Joseph)
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. (Addison Joseph)
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs. (Addison Joseph)
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. (Addison Joseph)
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm (Addison Joseph)
How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets. (Addison Joseph)
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. (Addison Joseph)
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. (Addison Joseph)
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do while for the next as a pearl in the world they do shine. For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve. For the next matrons or drudges they serve. For the next doth crave a staff for a stay. For the next a bier to fetch them away. (Addison Joseph)
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way. (Addison Joseph)
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. (Addison Joseph)
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Addison Joseph)
Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime. (Addison Joseph)
It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke. (Addison Joseph)
An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it. (Addison Joseph)
Age withers only the outside. (Addison Joseph)
Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others. (Addison Joseph)
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. (Addison Joseph)
One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. (Addison Joseph)
Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. (Addison Joseph)
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