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Quotes about age and aging
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see. (Addison Joseph)
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself. (Addison Joseph)
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. (Addison Joseph)
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. (Addison Joseph)
The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn. (Addison Joseph)
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. (Addison Joseph)
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. (Addison Joseph)
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. (Addison Joseph)
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly. (Addison Joseph)
Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother? (Addison Joseph)
There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy. (Addison Joseph)
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. (Addison Joseph)
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. (Addison Joseph)
The worst old age is that of the mind. (Addison Joseph)
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. (Addison Joseph)
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise. (Addison Joseph)
I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up. (Addison Joseph)
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, just in case, in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep. (Addison Joseph)
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. (Addison Joseph)
Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. (Addison Joseph)
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. (Addison Joseph)
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. (Addison Joseph)
Age, like distance lends a double charm. (Addison Joseph)
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. (Addison Joseph)
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. (Addison Joseph)
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