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A man growing old becomes a child again. -- Sophocles
The trick is growing up without growing old. -- Casey Stengel
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. -- Chili Davis
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. -- Euripides
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. -- Andre Maurois
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. -- Victor Hugo
You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. -- Rowan Williams
Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older. -- Louise Hay
Growing old is not growing up. -- Douglas Horton
But time growing old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus
I'm growing old, I delight in the past. -- Henri Matisse
No man loves life like him that's growing old. -- Sophocles
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. -- Bob Monkhouse
Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up. -- Philip Roth
Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life. -- Billy Graham
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. -- Glenda Jackson
No one longs to live more than someone growing old. -- Sophocles
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. -- Robert Browning
We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold. -- Max de Pree
Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many. -- Mark Twain
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. -- Ann Landers
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late. -- Ben Folds
To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative. -- Michael Caine
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young. -- Oscar Wilde
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. -- Lady Bird Johnson
I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do. -- Melanie Laurent
I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young. -- Amy Grant
The thing about growing old is you have to accept it - if you don't, you'll be as miserable as sin. You've got to try and find the few good things about it. -- Judy Parfitt
I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with. -- Edward Furlong
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. -- Kingsley Amis
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Billy Graham
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' -- Earl Warren
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives. -- Martha Gellhorn
The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is. -- Alex Witchel
I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little. -- Elena Anaya
So long as you are learning, you are not growing old. -- Joseph Hergesheimer
Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. -- Anthony Powell
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The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old. -- Craig Wilson
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young. -- Margaret Mead
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold? -- Frederick William Faber
At my growing years of 18 to 21 years old in the Minor Leagues, I dreamed of being a Philadelphia Phillie. -- Ryne Sandberg
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. -- Oscar Wilde
Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again. -- Gary Gulman
Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old. -- John Spence
One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment. -- Joseph Campbell
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. -- Samuel Johnson
Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting. -- August Strindberg
The most important thing is growing old gracefully. -- Audrey Hepburn
Growing old beats the alternative - dying young. -- Regina Brett
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. -- Carroll Bryant
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I have no aspirations of growing old and boring. -- Freddie Mercury
Growing old is something you do if you're lucky. -- Groucho Marx
This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds. -- Matsuo Basho
You don't grow old. You get old by not growing. -- E. Stanley Jones
Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege. -- Mark Hart
Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. -- Kenny Rogers
By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old. -- Benjamin Franklin
Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment. -- Kathe Kollwitz
It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud. -- Ian Somerhalder
Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart. -- George Clooney
I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it. -- Victor Borge
Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible. -- Ruth Rendell
Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore. -- Walt Disney
I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me. -- George Wald
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. -- Elsie de Wolfe
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn. -- Natalie Imbruglia
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death. -- Martha Ostenso
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. -- Gail Sheehy
and nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old -- Jack Kerouac
I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym. -- Roy Peter Clark
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun -- John Mellencamp
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. -- Chinua Achebe
Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly? -- Henri Nouwen
Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged. -- Jennifer Stone
I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up. -- Jean Hanff Korelitz
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. -- Julie Burchill
When I realised I wasn't Michael Jackson and I was this 10 year old boy growing up in the suburbs, I was devastated -- Darren Hayes
Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job. -- Paul Leautaud
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30. -- E. M. Forster
I like growing up; I feel like I have an old soul. I like the age to match as much as it can. -- Elizabeth Gillies
Stress is the demon in our society, stalking the cities and the countryside, striking down young and old and growing in strength daily. -- Srikumar Rao
I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills -- Novala Takemoto
The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. -- Andre Maurois
Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold. -- Daniel Johnston
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When I was growing up, I never really knew my father. I didn't get to know my father until I was about 14 years old. -- Cole Hauser
Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons. -- Edith Head
Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift. -- Haruki Murakami
The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to. -- Carew Papritz
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. -- Brigitte Bardot
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. -- Ruth Rendell
Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional. -- Sebastian Horsley
There's a growing trend of older Americans who are using marijuana in their retirement. That makes sense because old people are always talking about their joints. -- Jimmy Fallon
I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars. -- Jasmine Guinness
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old. -- Josh Billings
Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up. -- William Cowper
How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid. -- Cecelia Ahern
A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms. -- Julia Child
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age. -- Terry Teachout
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. -- Tony Dungy
One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age. -- E. W. Howe
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other. -- Ava Gardner
I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football. -- Taylor Kitsch
Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, "I must be growing," and continue moving forward. -- T. Harv Eker

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