Ten on Tuesday – Thoughts on Growing Older

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1. After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

2. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

3. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois

4. I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall

5. Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

6. No man is ever old enough to know better.
Holbrook Jackson

7. Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger

8. The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing

9. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

10. When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis

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2 Responses to “Ten on Tuesday – Thoughts on Growing Older”

  1. 1

    Great list! #1 is absolutely true…

  2. 2

    Great list! I love that you found quotes for them too.

    Mine’s up…come on over!


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