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Quotes about age and aging
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. (Addison Joseph)
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. (Addison Joseph)
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. (Addison Joseph)
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified. (Addison Joseph)
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. (Addison Joseph)
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made. (Addison Joseph)
Grow old with me the best is yet to come. (Addison Joseph)
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. (Addison Joseph)
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. (Addison Joseph)
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. (Addison Joseph)
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. (Addison Joseph)
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. (Addison Joseph)
In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. (Addison Joseph)
A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face. (Addison Joseph)
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. (Addison Joseph)
To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am. (Addison Joseph)
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. (Addison Joseph)
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. (Addison Joseph)
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Addison Joseph)
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. (Addison Joseph)
Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons. (Addison Joseph)
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice. (Addison Joseph)
An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. (Addison Joseph)
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. (Addison Joseph)
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. (Addison Joseph)
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