1] The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. [Sage of Baltimore]
2] To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. [Park Bench Statesman]
3] With age comes the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals? [first women's rights convention]
4] I can't get old; I'm working. As long as you're working, you stay young. [Gracie Allen]
5] It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. [Amantine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin]
6] Sure I'm for helping elderly people. I'm going to be one myself some day. [Jimmy Carter]
7] A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. [The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table]
8] I am not young enough to know everything. [All art is quite useless.]
9] He who is of 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. [Aristocles]
10] I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you … [Mary Westmacott]
And this is them:
[Agatha Christie 1890 - 1976]
(H. L. Mencken 1880 - 1956)
(George Burns 1896 - 1996)
(Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900)
(Bernard M. Baruch 1870 - 1965)
[Lillian Carter, in her 80s]
(Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 - 1894)
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(George Sand 1804 - 1876)
(Plato 427 BC - 347 BC, The Republic)
Only knew the G Burns one! Enjoyed it. x
ReplyDeleteTo add my 2 favourites...
ReplyDelete1/ You know yo are getting old when it takes you twice as long to look half as good.
2/ 75 y/o is a great age- you are still young enough to be asked to do things, but old enought to say,"no."
Two and one was a guess.
ReplyDeleteI hope the second quote in Ubermouth's comment is true, being rather close to being able to verify it or not.