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Quotes about age and aging
Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. (Addison Joseph)
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. (Addison Joseph)
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. (Addison Joseph)
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. (Addison Joseph)
It takes a long time to become young. (Addison Joseph)
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality. (Addison Joseph)
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. (Addison Joseph)
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many. (Addison Joseph)
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. (Addison Joseph)
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. (Addison Joseph)
Old age though despised, is coveted by all. (Addison Joseph)
We pay when old for the excesses of youth. (Addison Joseph)
The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. (Addison Joseph)
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. (Addison Joseph)
An old man loved is winter with flowers. (Addison Joseph)
Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying. (Addison Joseph)
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. (Addison Joseph)
Age considers; youth ventures. (Addison Joseph)
No one grows old by living. Only by losing interest in living. (Addison Joseph)
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. (Addison Joseph)
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. (Addison Joseph)
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. (Addison Joseph)
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. (Addison Joseph)
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. (Addison Joseph)
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. (Addison Joseph)
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